been a member of the
Excelsior Club of Highgate,
which means she would have
swum at the Kenwood
Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead
Heath, a favourite venue for
year-round swimmers – as it
still is today.
In the 1930s, meanwhile,
swimmers had a new facility
at Putney where a ‘beach’
was established at Putney
Embankment, which
continued into the 1940s.
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