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Saturday's race would have been over 440 yards (400m) for the Maurice Ferris cup with prizes presented by past President and club Archivist and Historian Mike Olizar.

Plus a little bit on the Polish history of the club.

From 1936 Hitler's Berlin to walking off with the wrong trousers, with much in-between.

Tony Cuthbert, the man who wrote the club anthem: "In the duck poo, that's what we do, come on in the water's fine.  You are in my heart forever, oh my darling Serpentine".

Remembering Alan Lacy, last of the club's WW2 generation and Clary Reed, who virtually singlehandedly kept the club going during the war.

Thomas family memories dating back to the 1930s.  Plus some detail on the threats the club faced in the 1980s and 90s.

Saturday would have seen the third scratch race of the club championship series.  This would also have been an opportunity to remember our dear friend Dave Holliday who had presented prizes for this race since the 1990s.  Dave sadly died aged 67 on the very day of what would have been his race, at the beginning of the Covid 19 outbreak.  Rob and Sarah Ouldcott were to sponsor the prizes if we had gone ahead.

8 o'clock Saturday morning would have seen the second fixture in the series for the Emmi Hunte cup, with prizes by Anna, Sam, Max and Theo Baker.  Gentle pool swimmer Anna optimistically joined us in 2004 to train for a Channel relay.  Anna was so overwhelmed with the experience that she went on to complete a solo crossing the following year.