upstream to Oxford ‘on a
fortnight’s enjoyment on the
river, if it killed us’.
By now the Thames was
seen as ‘quite respectable’
compared with a hundred
years earlier. It had ‘come to
be largely used as a place of
public recreation and resort’
according to the 1885
Thames Preservation Act,
although men still swam
naked. A Thames
Conservancy by-law of 1887
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