service. As with the Kingston
Ladies, they also swam in the
Thames and the Surrey
Ladies may well be the
river’s oldest, and possibly
first, club for women. In 1912
they held a long-distance race
from Molesey Lock, while in
the summer of 1919 Ivy
Hawke swam just over eleven
miles from Raven’s Ait to
Chiswick church, spending
six and a half hours in the
water. Eighteen women
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