Downstream

object of going down river’.
She also experienced a strong
headwind and had to dodge
bits of floating boxes. At
Kew she was helped into a
boat by her instructor, Walter
Brickett, the coach and trainer
for the British swimming
team during the early 1900s,
having ‘wound up with a
good strong spurt’ and
walking along the landing
stage ‘without much sign of
fatigue’.