Downstream

Club organised annual
entertainments, just like its
counterpart in Lechlade, with
its 1892 event held at its
headquarters at ‘Simonds’s
Baths, in South-street’, where
the press reported ‘many of
the races were keenly
contested, particularly that for
the championship of
Reading’. The programme
included a life-saving
exhibition and drill, with
various methods of rescue