summer’s Sunday afternoon a
young boy was ‘suddenly
taken with the cramp, when
he sunk to rise no more’,
while another ended up in
hospital after diving into the
river and ‘his face was
severely cut and his head
injured by a stone at the
bottom’.
But, as usual, it was naked
bathing that the local
authorities viewed as a bigger
concern. In 1835 a ‘gang of
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