Downstream

and one of the most
congested points in London.
By the mid-nineteenth
century 100,000 people
walked across it every day –
an ideal spot then if you
intended to swim from it and
wanted a crowd. In
September 1875 it was here
that Agnes Beckwith plunged
into the Thames from a
rowing boat and sped all the
way to Greenwich. She was
just fourteen years old.