Competitors presented to the Mayor at Folkestone Pool - Margaret Feather

Presentation to the Mayor John F. Moncrieff 1950. Photograph taken at Folkestone Pool of the Channel swimmers for the 1950 Daily Mail race being presented by Ted Temme to the Mayor of Folkestone at Folkestone Pool. Margaret Feather shaking hands with the Mayor; in the line, Barnie, Brewster, Abertondo and Cruz can be identified Folkestone Pool was the main training base for the 1950 to 1959 swimming races. These events finally finished, mainly for two reasons – firstly that because of inclement weather races could not always take place on the arranged date, and Billy Butlin as a showman and entrepreneur, was finding it difficult to accept this situation. A lady Dr. Barbara Moore was an excentric middle aged long distance walker who became the focus of the public’s attention because of her abrasive nature. From the Sam Rockett Collection