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that’s the first place you don’t
scrape your knuckles on the
ground when you try to
swim’. Born in Ilford, Essex,
in 1949, his first charity swim
was in 1970 when he
completed 240 lengths of
Barkingside swimming pool
to raise £400 for a cancer
charity, with his sponsors
offering 1d per length. He
went on to raise money in a
variety of ways, such as
flying on the wings of a Tiger