Downstream

playing fields. By the 1770s
the college had hired
‘watermen’ with boats and
one pupil, writing to his
father in 1796, offered the
following reassurance: ‘I
hope you will not make
yourself the least uneasy
about my going into the
water, as I do really assure
you that I never go in without
proper people attending.’
Another pupil remembered
his swimming experiences a