Downstream

plan was to walk from his
home city of Liverpool to
London and back, diving
from a bridge at each end of
the journey.
‘The Champion Diver of
the World’, as he would be
known, first dived from
Runcorn Bridge, and then
swam eighteen miles along
the Mersey to Liverpool,
before setting off to London.
When he reached London
Bridge ‘the police had to be