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fashion because ‘we live in
centrally heated homes and
we’ve been indoctrinated
with Health & Safety. Cold-
water swimming is a habit
that we’ve lost. There were
hundreds of swimming clubs
in the past, now there are
virtually none.’ But thanks to
Tom and Jeremy this has now
changed and a pre-dawn
swim taken for fun some ten
years ago has led to the birth
of three major annual swims