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tides and Alison had to move to the sides, while on the upstream swim ‘everything was coming towards her, the ...
rolled on her back and then she flew into Richmond.’ In 1991 Alison Streeter was awarded an MBE for swimming ...
nine are women, and the latter has fifty-one individual British swimmers, of which thirteen are women. ‘After she ...
IMSHOF as an Honour Observer in recognition of the hundreds of Channel swimmers who owe their success to her tra ...
23 Southend ‘The estuaries of rivers appeal ...
strongly to an adventurous imagination’ Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea, 1907 It’s 9 a.m. in mid-July, t ...
The longest heatwave for seven years has just come to an end with dramatic thunderstorms, but the air is still ...
deserted and a lone seagull screams in the air. Southend is a seaside town not yet open for the day. Only ...
western boundary is said to be Sea Reach, near Canvey Island, while the eastern boundary is a ‘line’ drawn ...
empire. He lived upstream in Stanford-le-Hope in the 1890s and Heart of Darkness opens on board the Nellie, ...
possible fruition to adventurous hopes . . . Amongst the great commercial streams of these islands, the Thames ...
champions. Its reputation as a resort began in Georgian times, and its beaches and good rail links with Lond ...
well-arranged, and old fashioned watering–place’. ‘’Arry occasionally descends upon the place in his thousands’, an ...
long gone, of course, but the famous pier and its railway line still stands. I get the first train of the da ...
world wars. Yet here it still is, the longest pleasure pier in the world at 1.33 miles, and it’s had a ...
edge of the pier and put 50p in a talking telescope. A recorded voice tells me I’m opposite the Kent co ...
either; a sailing boat passes by and I can see a dredger in the distance near Canvey Island. To my left is ...
hundred years ago, ‘no features to the land . . . no conspicuous, far-famed landmarks for the eye’. As I ...
there isn’t actually anything to do on the long walk back except enjoy the views. There are places to sit, ...
the 1970s. I turn back and look along the pier; the ‘building’ I thought I saw near the North Sea is ...
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