Downstream
the Thames Conservancy Board. In 1858, the year after it took control of the river, Board members paid a vis ...
at Westcliff-on-Sea’. It was, according to J. Blundell, an ‘obelisk with a difference’ and ‘uncommonly situated ...
preservation in Priory Park, where it still stands today. The derivation of the Crowstone’s name isn’t clear. ...
visits paid to the Crowstone and Sir John Pirie, then Lord Mayor, ‘first held the City sword and colours’ ...
edition of the Illustrated London News includes an image showing ‘the ceremony at the boundarystone’ where a ma ...
summer of 1900 a local Baptist pastor baptised ‘four candidates by immersion in the sea near Crowstone, in t ...
wife, Rachel, Ben Jaques, Jane Riddle and Jane Bell. ‘Do you want to swim now or later?’ asks Iain. ‘Now,’ ...
We walk a few steps to the beach and he explains the plan is to swim out to the Crowstone from in ...
meadow of Trewsbury Mead and here I am over 200 miles later. I’ve followed the course of the river at Ox ...
last I’ve arrived where the massive waterway ends. And now that I am about to end my journey I’d rather ...
swimming costume about to jump into the estuary. I step over a small stone wall, walk down the be ...
warning to swimmers that there’s an underwater hazard between here and the foreshore. I’m told we will swim out ...
across the incoming tide. It doesn’t seem to be helping me much; instead I’m being buffeted from the right, ...
We’re being accompanied by a man in a kayak now, Jason Curtis, the founder of the Great Pier Swim. I thin ...
these waters and I don’t. Iain tells me to watch out for two windsurfers who suddenly appear in the distance an ...
swim, although the further out we go the water feels colder and that’s a relief. Now I’m reassured by the presen ...
touch its gritty edge, tread water and look up to its pyramid-shaped top. My first impression is that it’s ...
east side is a list of names including Aldermen, Sheriffs elect, a solicitor, water bailiff and common c ...
be harder but it isn’t, may be because I made it and it wasn’t far at all, only a 500- metre round trip. ...
Olivia, who joined us on a surfboard at the end of our swim. She’s thirteen and is concentrating on brushing ...
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