John Humphries, a member
of the Outdoor Swimming
Society, remembers
‘hundreds of people used to
swim in the Thames at
Reading in the 1970s during
the annual music festival’.
But others stopped swimming
because of increasing
numbers of swans, believed
to carry avian TB, as well as
the risk of larger boats, and
illegal sewage discharge.
However, local people still
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