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Oadby, Leicester Road c1955
Ref: O100257a
I think Mr Allen was succeeded by his two sons who ran the chemists for some years. Presumably gone now. I also have fond memories of the swimming baths where I learned to swim with my friend Michael Tunnicliffe and of the old library above the baths. Wonderful times.
Shared on 09 May 2009
This was a wonderful wildlife haven for children and I well remember playing for hours on end in the stream which meandered through. We lived in the Vicarage at No 1 London Road and had the idyllic childhood that few seem to remember. I think there were army huts or Nissan huts alongside the run of Fluids Lane and I assume these were old Second World War relics. I remember exploring these many a time. Happy days, happy days.
Shared on 09 May 2009
A demi paradise, Fluids Lane was at the far end of the village towards Glen Road, I think. It contained a stream, and woods. What wonderful memories I have of that place, nothing can compare, we played for hours damming the stream, climbing trees etc., away from home all day. The lane went on to the fields that housed the air force base, or aerodrome, and also the German prisoners of war that we befriended, hard to believe, but they were free to go to the pictures in the village. That was a little earlier, maybe around 1942 or so. I wish I could hear more about Fluids Lane.
Shared on 05 April 2009
My twin sister and I used to go to the Oadby baths on a Saturday morning with some friends, and we always used to have a race to see who got in first. Unfortunately one week I forgot to take off my watch before I jumped in and so got a good hiding when I got home for breaking it. I was in the pool first that time though. I can't remember having to go upstairs to changing cubicles though, I just remember being on the right side as you went in.
Shared on 23 January 2009
We lived on Greenbank Drive and we used to walk to Langmoor School down the Black Pad, which is now called Lawyers Lane. Farmer Steele had his farm down there and we always used to stop and look at his cows, and, if there were any born, his calves. I can smell it all now. He liked to keep people talking so we were invariably late for school.
Shared on 23 January 2009
Oadby, Leicester Road c1955
Ref: O100257a
Going to Mr Allens chemist and walking to Sandhurst street School'also going to the public library over the swimming baths
Shared on 02 December 2007
As a pupil at Launde School it was compulsory that we were taught to swim at Oadby Swimming baths, for those of you who know Oadby today it wasn't the newly built baths on Brabazon Road, the baths were in the centre of the village, it looked like an old theatre or cinema on first glance.
The boys changing rooms were on the side of the baths themselves the girls were upstairs and across a balcony.
The bath was covered in a glass roof, this would get covered in thick black mould and as you swam or doggy paddled it would plop off the roof into the baths and onto us little swimmers below.
Whatever the weather we walked to the baths, so during the winter when you were wet through you had to walk back to school.
Shared on 26 April 2007
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