swimming’ by Mrs W.B.
Knight, gold and silver
medallist of the Royal Life
Saving Society. The ‘pond’,
as it was known, was 91
yards long by 50 yards wide
and contained 616,500
gallons of water. In the two
weeks before the formal
opening, 3,535 had paid for
admission. Yet incredibly,
considering it was 1906 and
women already had a
swimming club at Kingston
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