New Kingston men’s club
and the Surrey Ladies in
- This meant that
Rebecca had another strong
link to Ivy Hawke, and she
set about finding out more.
Ivy was born on 12 April
1903, and lived in Surbiton,
where her mother ran the
Spread Eagle Coffee Tavern.
She was fourteen when she
won the 1917 Thames race,
an annual long-distance
swim, usually starting from