old Claire Parlett, along with
twelve others, left Sunbury
Lock at 11 a.m. The
‘wonderful girl swimmer’
didn’t leave the water until
7.30 p.m., after swimming
thirteen miles in eight and a
half hours, a feat that ‘beats
all previous records for lady
swimmers in the Thames’. It
must have been a round trip,
for she was loudly cheered as
she passed through Molesey
and Teddington locks before
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