Downstream

the Richmond Baths. This
was the headquarters of the
club, and its president was the
MP Thomas Skewes-Cox. A
few years later the Life
Saving Society was
demonstrating ‘rescuing and
resuscitating the Apparently
Drowned’, while club
members were competing in a
lighted candle race, attired in
nightdress and nightcaps.
The Richmond Club also
swam in the Thames. In 1895