landed at North Woolwich
Pier after nine hours, a
fraction of his intended time.
It would be more than a
hundred years before anyone
attempted anything similar.
This time it was Alison
Streeter. In 1985 she had
swum from Richmond to
Gravesend; the following
year she decided to do it the
other way round. She went
back to the PLA, intending to
swim from Gravesend to
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