The Royal Victoria Dock
was chosen as the original
venue for the first Great
London Swim, a one-mile
course that attracts
thousands of swimmers
every year.The new venue for the
swim is Docklands Sailing &
Watersports Centre, at the
west end of the outer Millwall
Dock where it used to be
connected to the Thames by a
channel that was filled in
during the 1920s. But