Downstream

swimmers: at Tumbling Bay
in Oxford, King’s Meadow in
Reading, Solomon’s Hatch in
Henley and Cuckoo Weir in
Eton there were bathing
islands, open-air baths,
floating platforms and
pontoons, and temporary
lidos.
Londoners flocked to the
upper Thames on houseboats
and steam launches, attending
regattas and Venetian-style
fêtes, river picnics and