newsworthy for a woman to
attempt to break a record set
by a man.
On 25 July 1899, Montague
Holbein had swum from
Blackwall two miles past
Gravesend and back,
covering forty-three miles in
the longest Thames swim
ever recorded at the time. He
began at Blackwall Pier,
‘went down river on a strong
ebb’ and then turned with the
tide after Gravesend and
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