Downstream

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Kingston Ladies fielded both
national and international
stars; Violet Morgan won the
Southern Counties ASA Girls
100 yards freestyle
championship in 1910, while
in 1924 Audrey Clemons,
‘still in her teens’, swam a
twelve-mile race in the
Thames, lasting five and a
half hours in water that was
‘exceedingly cold’. Three
years later Olive Bartle, aged
fourteen, won the club’s mile

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