Downstream

Jules Gautier who had swum
nine miles in the Thames with
his hands and feet manacled.
I assumed he was related
because he had the same
name as my father, but my
dad was faintly embarrassed
by the whole thing. That was
when I was small, but I
always remembered it.’
Brian had also seen a
photograph of Jules Gautier
on the bow of a boat, with his
three sons, Jules, Albert and