Downstream

She won a number of races
from Raven’s Ait to Kew
Bridge, to Chiswick church
and to Albert Bridge at
Chelsea. The island was a
popular place for other
swimmers to begin as well;
this was where, in 1888,
Madame Darnley Mitchell,
the ‘accomplished swimming
mistress of Kingston baths’,
had started her swim to
Henley. It was also here, in
July 1899, that Frederick