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<DIV>'Built in 1898, Shifford Lock is the youngest on the Thames. It is located at the eastern end of a tree-lined artificial cut which by-passes the loop of the river with its many tight meanders, now a peaceful backwater, near Duxford. Part of the back-water remains navigable by small craft to Duxford ford, the only surviving purpose-built ford on the river.'</DIV>
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<DIV>However, I have walked along it from Duxford ford to the lock, and there are a number of trees fallen into the water, so I concluded swimming it would not be a good idea.</DIV>
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<DIV>See you next week. I can only do Sunday. At this rate I'm going to have to do a lot of catching up swims, However, I am really enjoying those bits I'm able to do.</DIV>
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<DIV>Mary</DIV>
<DIV>. <BR><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 20/8/11, Colin Palmer <I><colin.palmer@talktalk.net></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Colin Palmer <colin.palmer@talktalk.net><BR>Subject: Re: [OSS Oxon] Cheating Thames swimmers<BR>To: "'Pam Jones'" <pamjones@btinternet.com>, ossoxon@earth.li<BR>Date: Saturday, 20 August, 2011, 14:15<BR><BR>
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<P class=yiv278528336MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US>From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=EN-US> ossoxon-bounces@earth.li [mailto:ossoxon-bounces@earth.li] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Pam Jones<BR><B>Sent:</B> 20 August 2011 14:10<BR><B>To:</B> ossoxon@earth.li<BR><B>Subject:</B> [OSS Oxon] Cheating Thames swimmers</SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=yiv278528336MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">I have been examining the map of the Thames minutely and have realised that, by going left to Shifford Lock at the end of Swim 9 where it usefully signposted Lock, we actually cut off a huge loop of the Thames proper. Do we really allow little things like avoiding weirs to excuse such morally questionable behaviour?</SPAN></DIV>
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