Downstream

While Ian always knew
about his grandmother’s
swimming career, and used to
beg for information about her
trophies, he only began his
research in earnest when his
own son was born and ‘it
became a mission to leave a
record of his interesting
great-grandmother’ to go with
all the memorabilia. ‘I think
she did the Thames because it
was on the circuit and coach
Howcroft would have put her