Captain Matthew Webb
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Captain Matthew Webb
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First Man To Swim The Channel Captain Matthew Webb swam the English Channel
from Dover to Calais on 24th & 25th August 1875 in 21 hours 45 minutes
covering a total distance of about 50 miles. He was triumphantly escorted
back to Dawley together with a local band , the journey was told in tales
of folklore, locals to this day refer to the Pig On The Wall. Legend
has it that as the Band led Webb's procession into Dawley, a pig placed
its front trotters onto the wall of its sty, to watch the band pass by.
Below is a 1930's picture of a monument placed in Clarence Laws facing the seafront.
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