Downstream

and from work and that’s
what gave her the idea. It was
not her original ambition to
swim the Thames but she saw
it as an opportunity.
Swimming the English
Channel was such a target,
especially for a woman,
because at that time no
woman had ever done it.’
I say I’m amazed her
mother could just get in and
swim. ‘She couldn’t,’
explains Doloranda, ‘she got