Downstream

Richmond but ‘they didn’t
want to give permission, they
said no one has ever gone up
the Thames,’ laughs her
mother, Freda: ‘don’t issue
Alison a challenge!’
This swim, which raised
money for breast cancer
research, ‘was fraught with
difficulties. She would stop
so I could feed her and the
river was so fast that she went
back half a mile, by the time
she caught up it was time to