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wealthy local resident and
former president of
Maidenhead Football Club.
After the war it was the turn
of Badcock’s sons, George,
Eddie and Derek, to dominate
the event. They were also
members of the Maidenhead
Swimming Club, and used to
train by swimming against
the flow from the Sounding
Arch to Boulter’s Lock. In
1950, at the age of fifteen,
Cynthia Brooks won the