Downstream

objection of the innumerable
Mrs. Grundies of those days
to the sight of youth
disporting itself naked and
unashamed in the river and on
the banks’. So bathing
drawers were introduced and
screens put up at Athens.
In the 1890s, ‘passing’ was
held as soon as the water
became warm enough,
generally towards the end of
May, at Cuckoo Weir. Much
attention was paid to style,