Downstream

marked the point when
watching someone swim the
Thames became mass
entertainment, others like to
bathe here, too. Roger Deakin
of Waterlog fame swam at
Buscot Pool, where he found
the river a ‘modest affair’, the
water clear enough to see
tench weaving among the lily
stalks, but he decried the ‘big,
ugly notices proclaiming the
danger of deep water’.
Grafton Lock, a couple of