Downstream

James Thomson, ‘This is the
purest exercise of Health,/The
kind refresher of the Summer
heats’. The poet and novelist
Algernon Charles Swinburne
later wrote that his only
‘really and wholly delightful
recollection’ of his time at
Eton was ‘of the swimming
lessons and play in the
Thames’.
Over the years some of the
old bathing places were
abandoned, but Cuckow