Downstream

put aboard a boat and
‘conveyed to a riverside
house, and there put to bed,
and surrounded by hot water
bottles’. A few months later
Nicks was back. In October
she became the ‘amateur long
distance record holder’ by
completing a ten-mile swim
from Putney to Tower Bridge
in two hours to ‘inaugurate
her “cold water season”’. She
then dashed off in a taxi to
Holborn Baths ‘to wash away