Downstream

and the ‘scene on the river
was quite unprecedented’. In
1895 Professor G. Peat,
‘well-known high diver’,
decided to dive from Putney
Bridge and swim to
Hammersmith, where he also
dived off the bridge, ‘for a
wager and a medal’.
But for me it is Annette
Kellerman’s swim from
Putney that is most
memorable, for she is one of
the few women champions