Downstream

Olympic Games in Berlin,
later explaining, ‘being
Jewish, it was unthinkable to
compete in the Games in Nazi
Germany, where my people
were being persecuted’.
As I walk back across Kew
Bridge I’m wondering why,
with all this illustrious river
racing history, I haven’t
found any reports of people
swimming around Kew any
more and, unlike at Henley,
Marlow, Maidenhead,