When Marie Finney dived
from London Bridge in
1889, diving was still a new
sport in England. By 1903
the Highgate Men’s Pond
on Hampstead Heath
(above) was hosting high
diving displays and
Graceful Diving
Championships.‘After pausing for a few
seconds to take her bearings,
she dropped upon the
projecting stone, a couple of
feet below the parapet, and