Channel hopeful trains at Brighton (1928)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Hoping to swim the English Channel, the 17-year-od swimmer, Miss Laddie Sharpe, stretches and then enters the water for training at Brighton Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Channel-itis . . . another victim! ENGLAND: Brighton and Hove: Brighton: EXT Jabez Woolfe, Gertrude Ederle, record holder, Background: Hoping to swim the English Channel, the 17-year-od swimmer, Miss Laddie Sharpe, stretches and then enters the water for training at Brighton FILM ID: VLVADY57W3D4RP35KIPE349FUZQ60 To license this film, visit Archive: Reuters Archive managed by: British Pathé