finishing the ‘hardy-fought
race’ in just over eight
minutes.
As late as the 1970s
families still spent summer
Sundays and school holidays
paddling in the Thames at
Sunbury, for example at
Rivermead Island. One bather
remembers, ‘It was
considered a normal thing to
do. Is the Thames worse than
it was? Are we more sickly?
Or simply more careful?’
jeff_l
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