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victory’. On 16 September he tried again, covered in 10 pounds of grease, and this time he made it despite b ...
him yards away from shore, where he was making no progress at all until a group of women swimmers ent ...
Nez to St Margaret’s Bay, in ‘13 hours, 55 minutes’, and the third British man to cross the Channel after his her ...
I leaf through the rest of the items in the box; someone has certainly put together a treasure trove of ...
to 5 Holly Gardens, Southchurch Road, Southend, just a few minutes’ walk from the museum. One is from the ...
THE OLD MAN NOW HOME TONIGHT LESLIE +’. Presumably these brief but triumphant words were sent to his family. The ‘o ...
before him, now he had to come up with something new. His daughter, Penny, recalls him setting off from Towe ...
press headlined the attempt: ‘Reckless Adventurer or Bizarre Suicide Attempt?’ The date isn’t clear, but in April ...
Telegraph shows him in a small Gaskin Ships’ lifeboat leaving Westminster Bridge to ‘conquer the channel again’. Pr ...
swim ‘under his supervision’ at Southend. Coleman had already shown ‘that she possesses the requisite stamina in a ...
five miles in the Thames in remarkable time, are now in Southend training for two big swims’. Edna Coleman wo ...
strong easterly wind. By 1938, however, Derham was working as a swimming pool superintendent. ‘I thought I was ...
off . . . And then I think that will be enough records for me.’ It doesn’t look like this was succes ...
swimmers, including Mark Foster and Sarah Hardcastle. ...
Norman Derham attempts ...
to boat down the Thames and ‘conquer the channel again’ in 1928. I leave the archives and head back to the pier, t ...
from France to England and in 1934 from England to France. Tammy, who trained at Leigh Creek, was 6 feet 2 ...
Eva Coleman – it’s not clear if she was related to the ‘Mrs. Coleman’ whom Derham trained. In 1933 the press ...
song was ‘This is My Lucky Day – l’m Going to Win Through’, and she was determined to have it playing on a ...
perhaps she was just answering a question from the press. She was said to ‘hold a few records’, including a t ...
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