Downstream

taught to swim in the Thames
– at Tumbling Bay in Oxford,
King’s Meadow in Reading
and Solomon’s Hatch in
Henley – and although
Marlow residents once bathed
before breakfast, now they
were being actively warned to
stay away from the river or
risk dreadful consequences.
But we never seem to stay
away for too long and thanks
to the rise in triathlons today
Marlow is the setting for a