Downstream

certificates. Champions were
created, records were broken.
How could all of this have
been so easily forgotten?
Perhaps because people left
the river in favour of warm
indoor pools, old bathing
places closed, other sports
such as rowing replaced
swimming, and bathers were
put off by fears of pollution
or by outright bans. If an old
trophy for a swim from
Boulter’s Lock to Bray hadn’t