While swimming races
were mainly held in indoor
baths, in 1891 the Ilex
Swimming Club’s annual
handicap was ‘150 yards
straight away from opposite
Solomon’s Hatch bathing
place’ and twenty-one people
took part. Ilex was founded in
1861, with members from
amateur rowing, yachting,
canoe, cruising, athletic and
football clubs. Its
headquarters were at the
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