Downstream

covered through their
insurance.” The council have
been great.’ Ben has also
been doing triathlons since
2009 – ‘old rowers don’t die,
we become triathletes’ – and
with the Long Swim ‘I
suddenly realised we were
taking the lid off something
massive and historical and
significant. Once the swim
was announced and word got
out we discovered all this
history. The Babcock family