Downstream

the Embankment, while the
following year another was
proposed near Albert Bridge.
There is little in the way of
any modern swims or races
recorded at Battersea,
although in the early 1950s
local children often enjoyed
jumping from the bridge. One
remembers ‘street urchins,
myself included, jumping
from the first arch’ into the
river. They then ‘swam to the
adjoining steps, ran along the