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I don`t know where to begin here. After a trip to London yesterday morning, I popped into The White Horse on the way home, and in there were a pleasant group of Irish people, one of whom had just swum the channel, and was signing the wall. During the conversation, I asked as to whether the Irish channel had been done, and the swimmer told us that only one person had done it, but didn`t mention who and I didn`t enquire. Anyway, I was looking for something this evening in the loft, and came across my father`s box of items, and got caught up looking through them again, and came across this picture of a Tom Blower which I thought was a relation of ours, and it was Dover beach possibly he was on. I never thought of doing it before, but I typed in Tom Blower on the internet to see if anything came up. Lo and behold, lots of interesting information, and that he was the swimmer who`d done the Irish channel between Ireland and Scotland. The picture below I`ve known about for year`s, but as I`ve said, I assumed it was a relative or freind. Anyone else heard of him? He was the torville and Dean of his day in the 30s and 40s apparently, and died young from a heart attack.