Downstream

Lock to Radcot Bridge. This
will be a city swim, and I
want to get a sense of what it
might have been like
swimming in London’s
dockland seventy years ago,
and to understand who does it
now and why.
But then on the evening of
Thursday 29 August I get an
unexpected email. Forty
hours from now I’ll be
arriving at the Royal Victoria
Dock for ‘the UK’s biggest