Downstream

with boats’.
But far more organised was
the ‘River Race’ or ‘Long
Swim’, run by the
Maidenhead Amateur
Swimming Club. The club
appears to have been formed
in the early 1890s, around the
same time as Reading’s, first
holding swimming
entertainments at the Grand
Hall Swimming Bath. By
1894 it was running an annual
sports day in Kidwells Park to