Downstream

quite a bit of trouble.
Matthew had never swum in
the Thames before, although
he did once rescue a dog, ‘but
that doesn’t count as a swim’.
The rescue took place on a
late February night in 1978
when he was walking home
after work from Westminster.
‘I saw a little boy and girl
near the river and they were
crying. They said they’d
taken their dog out for a walk
and it had climbed over the