atmospheric recreation of
nineteenth-century riverside
Wapping and a gallery
explaining the city’s
involvement in transatlantic
slavery. But I can find little
reference to swimming,
except for a poster from 1870
announcing a fête at West
India Dock.
‘The Thames, from London
Bridge onwards, is a difficult
and dangerous place to
swim,’ says Tom Wareham,
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