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had fancied a bathe at 2 a.m.
He had ‘got to the Middlesex
side’ but was not able to get
out, so he was ‘obliged to
walk in a nude condition’
through Hampton Wick all
the way to a friend’s house to
beg for some clothes.
In 1897 Kingston’s first
indoor swimming pool
opened, the Corporation
Baths, and it was here that the
Kingston Ladies, one of the
earliest swimming clubs for

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