them to teach her their novel
stroke and then introduced
the American crawl to the
UK, making her a ‘pioneer of
modern freestyle,’ explains
Ian McAllister, her grandson
and biographer.
Born in 1904 in Garston,
Liverpool, Hilda’s religious
upbringing meant she was not
allowed to do RE at school
and so as an unusual
alternative she was taken for
swimming lessons at the local
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