Downstream

artist Amy Sharrocks is
planning a mass swim across
the Thames from Tower
Bridge. ‘It’s our river,’ she
says. ‘It is the whole reason
we are here in London, it’s
the reason for the metropolis.’
Others still swim the Thames
to win a bet or for a dare, just
as in Victorian times,
individuals such as Peter Rae
who in 2003 swam across the
estuary from Southend to
Kent – and back.