Downstream

return to live with her parents
again’, although in the mid-
1960s she would teach Ian
and his brother to swim.
Then, in 1982, at the age of
seventy-six and now with a
pacemaker, she brought the
house down at Guinea Gap
Baths in Merseyside with an
impromptu swimming display
during a memorial gala for
another well-known open-
water swimmer, Ernie
Warrington.