the millstone of her shame
around her neck’. After
keeping herself and her child
‘in miserably paid drudgery’
she eventually drowned
herself and the river ‘hushed
away the pain’.
But Kew plays a happier
role in the history of Thames
swimming as the setting for
the five-mile long-distance
championship. This initially
began in 1877 and was
known as the ‘Lords and
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