Downstream

(Jeff_L) #1

people sign up for organised
swims in the Thames.
In some cases the tradition
remains virtually unbroken:
the Otter Swimming Club,
formed in 1869, still races in
the Thames. In other cases
we’ve come full circle,
resurrecting traditions we
didn’t know we once had,
like open-water swimming
clubs in Henley, Maidenhead
and Chalkwell, and plans for
a new floating bath in central

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