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Eva Coleman – it’s not clear
if she was related to the ‘Mrs.
Coleman’ whom Derham
trained. In 1933 the press
reported ‘Girl to Attempt
Channel Swim Training Diet
of Steak and Peaches’,
describing Coleman as having
‘big brown eyes, black hair,
an infectious laugh, and a
swinging, supple-limbed
stride’. Coleman worked as a
cashier at a hotel in the
Strand in London. Her mascot