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The beach at Greenwich where ‘little Londoners love to play at being at the ...
seaside’ pictured in 1935. The beach was in use from Edwardian times, by the 1930s guards were on duty to ensure better safety, ...
Blackheath and a public bath and washhouses on Trafalgar Road, where mixed bathing had proved very popular, w ...
Life Saving Society, had started work on Greenwich Beach on August bank holiday to ‘prevent loss of life’. ...
‘all ranks of competent swimmers’, most with life- saving awards, including members of the police, Sea Scouts an ...
drowning here and his rescuer given a shaving set in recognition of his valour. The guards were on duty from ...
War, although again children continued to use it in the 1960s. One visitor remembers playing on the beach and c ...
the longest artificial city beach in Europe, catering for up to 5,000 people with tonnes of sand ferried by bar ...
the case of the Greenwich peninsula, our attempt to reclaim the Thames ended in failure. I get the Docklands Light R ...
National Maritime Museum, however, has no specific objects or documents relating to Thames swimming, although ...
summer’s Sunday afternoon a young boy was ‘suddenly taken with the cramp, when he sunk to rise no more’, ...
fellows’ were seen bathing on the banks of the river at Greenwich ‘in defiance of the order very proper ...
clean. In 1859 Greenwich’s Medical Officer noted several epidemic diseases, scarlatina, measles and cholera – the ...
court when the police arrested sixteen-year-old Edward Vinten who, along with two other boys, had been ...
These were caught in the river until pollution drove fish – and the local fishing industry – out of th ...
Ship. As for the issue of naked bathers, at the time of Vinten’s arrest there had already been ‘numerous com ...
‘convalescent small-pox patients’ on board the Dreadnought hospital ship. The young men – aged between fifteen and ...
seafaring life’. The judge said he could well understand the desire to bathe during hot weather, but there ...
were taught to swim. In the end Vinten was fined ten shillings on condition of good behaviour for three mon ...
are no children playing on the sand or families having picnics, no guards or bell tent. The scene in the ...
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