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four years old and already the largest of its kind in the country. Just how did it start? ...
A view of the west side of ...
the Crowstone, with the words ‘God preserve the City of London’ carved deep into the stone. ‘I began open-water swimming w ...
people don’t often swim in the sea as a family. She came up with the club name, in the sea you need some ...
Swimming to the Crowstone with members of the Chalkwell Redcaps Ben Jaques and Jane Riddle, the stone is so wide it’s impossible ...
become more popular but people are still a bit scared to go in the sea, it’s a cultural thing, we’re told ...
could use a temporary buoy, so we would swim up to the Crowstone, across to the buoy and then back, makin ...
hut at the end of the bowling green, and were given a five- year lease, with an annual rent of £1,000. Clu ...
that they decided to make it ‘more legitimate’, rather than just a social event, and approached the life ...
volunteers only work on Sundays and bank holidays between May and September. The lifeguards were in existence by ...
the Redcaps’ events. ‘We’re trying to develop,’ he explains; ‘the other day someone asked, “are you new?” “N ...
visitors, are more of an issue, they don’t know the area and they don’t know how to swim sometimes.’ ...
lot.’ The girls had already been pulled out and saved, and just as in Victorian times neither knew how to swi ...
Association, ‘but they couldn’t work out what we were doing, they gave me regulations for an indoor sw ...
Crowstone Crawls a year, a 200-metre loop that is a social swim, attracting up to seventy people. Other ...
plunged into the chilly Thames Estuary,’ reported the local press on the swim’s second anniversary. ‘The Chalkwel ...
while others, after being fully submerged in the water, didn’t stay quite as long’. They now have 240 memb ...
done today, inviting members to come to the hut at 2 p.m. for a swim.’ But it is hard work, especially as ...
two every month, all without a wetsuit. Again, he started it for pleasure and fun, then people learned of his ...
University of Essex’s Southend campus. The Redcaps now work with the organisers of the Great Pier Swim, launche ...
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