Parrott, one of the few images
held by the Museum of
London with evidence of
Thames swimming, shows a
group of boys undressing on
the foreshore below Waterloo
Bridge getting ready for a
dip. But in modern times
people were more likely to try
and kill themselves here.
Actress Damaris Hayman
remembers people jumping
off London bridges ‘to finish
themselves’ in the 1950s: ‘a
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