Downstream

and indeed impeded, the
swimmer the entire distance.’
Like Annette Kellerman
some thirty years later, it was
Beckwith’s attire that was of
just as much interest, ‘a
swimming costume of light
rose pink llama trimmed with
white braid and lace of same
colour’, and no future press
report would be complete
without reference to her
clothing. At Horseferry Dock
a salute was fired, and she