Downstream

solution to overflowing
sewers.’ However, until
recently Chris wasn’t aware
of London’s heritage of
floating baths, although ‘I’ve
always loved swimming; it’s
a bit of a family obsession
and there are stories that an
elderly relative used to swim
across the Thames at
Hammersmith sometime in
the 1980s.’
When he saw the Open
Call, ‘I was at Lake Zurich