Middlesex - Merry Mermaids

Rules be damned as women swimmers make a splash at Chiswick, running, diving, bombing, splashing and ducking a man dressed like Charlie Chaplin.

Chiswick’s small open air pool is the site of this gleeful short, featuring a couple of dozen women swimmers breaking every rule of the pool. First, they have a leapfrog race by the side of the pool, before they are accosted by a clown dressed as Charlie Chaplin, who gets thrown in fully clothed. Next comes splashing and diving, before they all give a big wave from the stairs leading up to the second floor of Chiswick’s innovative two-deck changing rooms.