raise funds, where 1,200
spectators watched a one-mile
handicap and a ‘consolation
race’. Then in 1897 the club
decided to switch venues,
agreeing at its annual meeting
that ‘members should leave
the Grand Hall Bath, and
bathe and swim in the river
instead’. They were now
negotiating with the Rowing
Club ‘for the use of their
boathouse’ in the early
mornings, and a few months
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