Downstream

ending at Kingston Railway
Bridge looking ‘quite fresh
and well’.
Kingston was a focal point
for women swimmers at the
turn of the century, Reading
may have had a club in 1904,
and other Thames towns had
designated bathing places, but
aside from racers in
Maidenhead in the 1950s this
is the first time I’ve come
across so many champion
women in one place. The