Downstream

moved to the other side of the
railway bridge.’ The new site,
between Jacobs Island and
the riverbank, was known as
Boddys Baths. It was home to
the Windsor Swimming Club,
founded in 1883, with a
clubhouse on the island.
There are earlier references to
‘the Windsor and Eton
Swimming Club’, which had
thirty-six members in 1881,
but Leslie says this was a
water polo club.