‘Kew-bridge’ to the ‘Ibis
Boat-house’.
Kew was also the starting
point for a memorable long-
distance swim by seventeen-
year-old Annie Luker when,
in August 1892, she set off
for Greenwich intending to
swim eighteen and a half
miles to ‘establish claim to
the female championship of
the world’. By London
Bridge, the press reported,
she was showing signs of
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