Downstream

Thames swimming and
diving events, including a ‘50
Yards Ladies’ race. The town
continued to host diving galas
until at least 1935. That year
Cecily Cousens, a seventeen-
year-old from Swindon who
had recently won the
women’s high diving
championship of England and
a bronze medal at the
Commonwealth Games,
‘received injuries at Lechlade
while practising from a