one had succeeded in a
Thames swim of this
distance, except Webb the
year before when he
completed ‘nearly six miles’,
watched by just three people.
The following year Agnes
Beckwith swam three-
quarters of a mile in the River
Tyne, and then ten miles from
Battersea Bridge to
Greenwich. Once again
hundreds assembled to watch
when, on 5 July 1876, she
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