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the Court of Chancery was
that ‘everybody has a right to
employ the water of a large
public river as he thinks fit’,
and the injunction was
dismissed.
In 1880 the council gave
local engineer John Dixon
£1,000 to build a new
swimming place where
women would also be
allowed, as in other riverside
towns, for a few hours a
week. This was a pontoon,