Downstream

five miles in the Thames in
remarkable time, are now in
Southend training for two big
swims’. Edna Coleman would
tackle Southend to Sheerness;
her mother would attempt
Tilbury to Southend. By now
another swimmer called ‘Mrs
Inge’ had created ‘a record
for a Thames Estuary Swim’
in 1928 between Gravesend
and Southend. She swam ten
miles in two hours forty-three
minutes, in the face of a