Yet what about all the old
Thames swimmers, those like
Horace Davenport, who won
the first long-distance
amateur championships in
1877 from Putney to
Westminster; Annie Luker,
who in 1892 swam from Kew
to Greenwich; and Montague
Holbein, who managed forty-
three miles from Blackwall to
Gravesend in 1899? There
they were racing in the filthy
waterway, surrounded by
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