Downstream

probably more than one Otter
who harbours the idea of
returning to the tideway for a
repeat of the great races of
Victorian and Edwardian
times.’
In part that has come to
pass. Today the club has 375
members, 260 of whom are
swimmers, and, as in the past,
many are university
graduates. And why do they
still choose to swim in the
Thames? ‘Early swimmers