His Life – Professor Tommy Burns

The Dundee Courier on 30th January 1897 reported: 'Some years ago he [Tommy] undertook to run a race against a horse and trap from Liverpool to St Helens, and won the contest, and on another occasion he was backed against a team of horses and coach to run from Birkenhead to Bangor, a distance of 40 miles, and again won.'

Read the wonderful story of Tommy's joint attempt to set a long-distance swimming record in the Mersey. The account titled A Long Swim was published by Thomas William Sheffield, former captain of Birkenhead Swimming Club and a world authority on swimming.

A very interesting site, there should be sites like this that keep the memories alive of people like Tommy. Excellent work - Pete Blackmore, chair, Runcorn & District Historical Society

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