Downstream

few major swims from
Teddington in the following
decades until, half a century
later, Eileen Lee, whose
father was the lock keeper,
set a new world record. In
July 1915, she had swum
from Richmond to Tower
Bridge, and then she repeated
the course, only this time
heading upstream. Then
nineteen years old, she left
Tower Bridge a little before 9
a.m. on 23 August and, using