Victorian times.’
By then, Easton was
already a well-known
swimmer (in 1898 he came
up with the idea of launching
a professional long-distance
championship from Kew to
Putney) and he’d already
made several attempts to
swim from Richmond Bridge
to London Bridge. In 1888,
‘owing to a very sluggish
tide’, he’d only managed to
get to Putney, but the
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