On 2 August 1878 when
Webb set off for a 100-mile
swim, this did receive more
coverage. The plan was to
start at North Woolwich
Gardens, swim down the
river, ‘probably reaching
Gravesend about low-water’,
turn with the tide and swim
back to Woolwich. As the
tide turned again, so would
Webb, reaching Gravesend at
about midnight and then
North Woolwich that
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