Downstream

warm pavements back on to
the bridge, and jumped off
again’. Bridge jumping
appears to have been quite
common in the 1950s.
Londoner Alan Smith told his
children he had been the
youngest person ever to dive
off Hammersmith Bridge,
upstream from here, in 1952.
‘He was fifteen years old and
he was in a diving squad of
some kind,’ says his daughter
Stephanie, and when he died