Downstream

hands down and scooping
forward. And he waited for
the tide so that would have
helped. With the tow boat he
was upping the ante.’
Brian’s father’s father,
Albert, followed in Jules’
footsteps. In around 1922
Albert moved from Islington
to the coastal Yorkshire town
of Bridlington, where Brian
was born. ‘He ran the baths in
town, and taught local school
children to swim. I never met