the Colman Family. The boys
still bathed here until the late
1840s but then increasing
pollution meant school
bathing was transferred to the
Lambeth Baths and later to a
floating bath at Charing
Cross. However, people
continued to swim around
Westminster. ‘The Thames is
altogether such a wonderful
affair,’ wrote Henry James in
- ‘From Westminster to
the sea . . . in its recreative