Downstream

(Jeff_L) #1

perhaps she was just
answering a question from
the press. She was said to
‘hold a few records’,
including a twenty-one-mile
swim in the Thames, and a
‘seven hour test’ at Southend.
Some swimmers,
meanwhile, attempted to
swim upstream from
Southend. Pathé News filmed
a race to Gravesend, ‘up the
mouth of the River Thames’
sometime between 1920 and

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