Downstream

Abingdon Lock Pool’ with
floating screens moored
across the back stream. Four
days a week were ‘set apart
for the ladies to have the
exclusive right of bathing
there,’ explained one
newspaper. ‘We hear that a
club has been formed by
some ladies of the town for
the purpose of learning the art
of swimming.’
Abingdon was still a place
for family dips in the 1960s