Downstream

great-grandfather used to
come here and there was a
wire across the river and they
used to walk across it.’ And
does he ever see anyone
swimming here now? ‘No,’
he says, ‘though we did see
David Walliams go past. We
were saying, “is it him or is it
a seal?”’ Aside from naked
races in Victorian times and
the swimming school outlined
by Random, Battersea was
also the location for a