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accustomed to bathe’ they did
so ‘as fully as much exposed
to public view as the East
Cliff at Brighton’. But then
canvas screens were put up
around the school’s bathing
place, just as they were at
Eton and later at other
Thames-side spots, thanks to
headmaster Dr Edmund
Goodenough. An entry from
the Town Boy Ledger reads:
‘In order that the fellows
might bathe without losing