Downstream

Windsor Bank or to swim out
to launches and barges or to
hang onto, or interfere with,
boats of any kind’; anyone
breaking the rule would be
‘severely punished’.
Swimming at Eton had
certainly evolved over some
150 years, becoming safer,
more skilled and far more
regulated. Gone were the
days of naked boys paying a
guinea to learn how to swim;
now pupils needed to obey