‘near the pound-keeper’s
lodge’ in 1843 and a further
renovation fifty years later.
There were also three local
swimming clubs that used the
Thames in Victorian and
Edwardian times: Reading
Swimming Club, the Island
Bohemian Club and the
Winter Bathers.
The Reading Swimming
and Lifesaving Club was
founded in 1885, and would
eventually have its
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