Hawke was broken, so when
Alison set a Thames record in
1985 she didn’t know about
the women who had come
before her or the way she was
building on their legacy.
As for swimming in
Richmond today, the local
newspaper carries the usual
warnings and reports of
fatalities. In August 2001 a
licensed river ‘waterman’
pulled a man from the
Thames at around 1 a.m. ‘I
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