Downstream

with hat and coat hooks, nine
large dressing boxes, a ticket
office and toilets. Thames
swimming at Reading was
now becoming more
sophisticated, for both
spectators and participants.
Sluice doors allowed water in
and out of the pool; ‘this
arrangement was deemed
necessary, as lowering the
sluice door it will allow all
leaves, etc., floating on the
top of the water to run off’.