Downstream

ten guineas.
Other noted Victorian
swimmers also set off from
London Bridge, among them
Frederick Cavill, who
attempted to swim to
Gravesend in July 1876. The
ex-Champion of the South
Coast would ‘start a little
swim’ said the press, intended
as a ‘gentle preparation’ for a
projected Channel crossing.
Cavill, born in 1839 in
London, had joined the navy,