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    Birmingham Ladies Swimming Club 1886

    Many thanks for your response. I did find a ref in the Birmingham Mail of 30 August 1890 referring to this club, but nothing before that. This article referred to the unnamed fourteen year old captain who had swum two and a half miles at Kent Street Baths! The article also referred to a...
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    Birmingham Ladies Swimming Club 1886

    Many thanks for this suggestion. I will certainly follow this up.
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    Birmingham Ladies Swimming Club 1886

    I am researching Rosalia Vernon who won the Captaincy Prize silver medal of this club in 1886. She lived at 16 High Street, Aston at this time and later moved to Droitwich where she was a professor of swimming. I have found information about her from censuses and parish registers etc but I would...
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