B/w print photograph

Acc.no: PEZPH : 1993.43.135

Identification

Item: A male swimmer preparing to dive

Description: A male swimmer dressed in a striped bathing suit preparing to dive off the diving board at a bathing spot at Battery Rocks. The Wharf was known as Batten or Couch's Wharf. A couple of boats sit in the water below. The swimmer is likely to be Professor Richard Hicks who was born the son of a master mariner in Penzance in 1858 and started his swimming career aged 10. From that time to 1890, when he retired from competitive swimming, he was a regular prize winner in south western swimming galas, a Devon and Cornwall champion, a winner of the Welsh Championship and a national champion at 1000 yards. When the Swimming Pool was added to the Public Baths in Penzance in 1889, Richard Hicks became its first swimming instructor.

Condition: Good - Medium amount of discolouration to the bottom and left edges with spotting across the top half of the photograph.

Description

Height: 140mm

Width: 97mm

Material: Photograph

Production

Method: Printed

Date: 1880

Person: Branwell, John

Place: Penlee House

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