Downstream

Hope, who was ‘in the
service of the Vicar of
Lechlade’, drowned while
bathing with some friends. He
got ‘put out of his depth into
a large hole in the river,
although cautioned by his
companions not to do so’.
Like most people, neither
Hope nor his friends could
swim.
Then, in 1905, the town
launched an annual water
carnival on the Thames on