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of London had received a
letter from ‘Admiral Sir
George Elliott, KCB’ asking
for ‘the formation of an
approach from the Thames
Embankment across the
Wharf in front of the New
City of London School to a
Floating Swimming Bath’.
This was ‘to be placed in the
Thames at the North-west end
of Blackfriars Bridge’. It took
the City Lands Committee
nearly a year to recommend