Strait, watched by ‘hundreds
of women’, becoming the
first person ever to swim the
eight-mile course, in twelve
hours fifty minutes. She also
returned to the Thames and in
December 1928, in water that
was 36 degrees, swam from
Tottenham Bridge to London
Bridge on Boxing Day. The
press reported ‘six other girls
refused to enter the water
because of the wintery
conditions’. That same month
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