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artist James Whistler moved
to Lindsey Row in Chelsea in
1863 and his windows faced
the Thames which he painted
over forty years, whether the
exposed piers of Battersea
Bridge at low tide or
fireworks at Cremorne
Gardens. But for bathers in
this area the river could be
dangerous. In the summer of
1857 a sixteen-year-old boy
died while bathing near
Cremorne Gardens when he