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avert their eyes from naked bathers. I walk past the Old Royal Naval College where people sit on benches ...
particularly dangerous. The beach is covered in grainy beige sand, on which someone has drawn a love heart, do ...
doesn’t feel too cold; I’d like to get in and swim. The only thing that puts me off, aside from not havi ...
barge loads of sand from Great Yarmouth. The plans had started in 1902 when the suitably named Councillo ...
be placed in an enclosure whilst bathing was taking place’. The formal opening took place on the evening of 30 July, ...
swimming’ by Mrs W.B. Knight, gold and silver medallist of the Royal Life Saving Society. The ‘pond’, as it was ...
and their own Thames pool at Reading, only nineteen of these were ‘ladies’. By 1912 the pond was open ...
decades the sand had gone and there was rubbish everywhere. In 1999 the beach was redeveloped as a children’s playg ...
peninsula might never have materialised and the Tower Beach is now only open two days a year, but here ...
cold salt-water baths on shore, as well as bathing machines in the river. An advert from around 1800 expla ...
endurance swimmers in Victorian times; Frederick Cavill, for example, arrived here in 1876 after his twenty- ...
unnaturally in vogue this month,’ commented the Penny Illustrated Paper as it reported on Webb’s ten-hour swim ...
ever accomplished in fresh water’, and ‘took no alcoholic stimulants during his swim, his only refreshment being ...
Gravesend had presented Webb with a purse containing £75, the Assembly Rooms were full to capacity, a ...
On 2 August 1878 when Webb set off for a 100-mile swim, this did receive more coverage. The plan was to st ...
evening. The press noted that this was ‘an expedition which, should it prove successful, will, as a feat of ...
He set off with a powerful breaststroke and, hugging the Essex shore, headed towards Gravesend. Two hours lat ...
landed at North Woolwich Pier after nine hours, a fraction of his intended time. It would be more tha ...
Richmond but ‘they didn’t want to give permission, they said no one has ever gone up the Thames,’ laugh ...
feed her again. Around the Woolwich Ferry the tide was due to change and it didn’t. We phoned the PLA and said ...
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