Downstream

which traces its history back
to the nineteenth century.
It’s no wonder then that
many adults in Oxford spent
their childhoods immersed in
local rivers. ‘Our mum used
to take us for picnics by the
Thames, and we swam from
what seemed to us to be
miniature beaches. As far as I
was concerned, that was what
rivers were there for!’ says
Jenny Rogers, who was born
in Oxford in 1952. ‘I mourn