Downstream

of the Fifth Form, while
Boveney Weir stream was
confined to a ‘select few’. It
was then decided to widen
Cuckoo Weir, which would
later become known as Wards
Mead Bathing Place.
The duumvirate ended
shortly after the First World
War, when Athens was
bought for the college. Up to
that point, the bathing spot
had been rented from the
Crown but in 1917 an Eton