Downstream

sporting men decided that,
rather than swimming from
London Bridge, they would
dive from it. In 1871, J.B.
Johnson made ‘a sensational
leap’ in order to rescue a
drowning man, a ‘Mr Peters
of the West-end’. But
rumours abounded: was ‘Mr
Peters’ none other than
Johnson’s brother, Peter,
himself a professional
swimmer? It appeared that
‘his fall from a steamer’ and