Downstream

events were the height of
popularity and it was now
that Thames swimming really
came into its own. Swimming
of any kind was in fashion:
‘while the present weather
lasts all England by sea and
stream will take a periodical
if not a daily plunge into the
limpid element,’ reported the
Penny Illustrated Paper. It
was ‘the mania of the hour,
and a very good mania too,’
commented The Graphic. But