Downstream

I’ve dried off and it’s time to
go. I ask Iain if he feels the
Redcaps are bringing back an
old tradition of swimming at
Southend. ‘That tradition has
been wiped out,’ he says.
‘The big issues today are
Health & Safety and
safeguarding kids. You didn’t
have that in Victorian times.
What we’re doing is writing a
whole new chapter.’
If this is where my
downstream trip ends then,