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Swimming Lessons

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.

Written by Karen Miller. To send Karen Miller a private message, click here.

A memory of Oadby in Leicestershire shared on Thursday, 26th April 2007.

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RE: RE: Swimming Lessons

The boys' changing rooms were dark, damp and cold. We called them "the dungeons" - an entirely appropriate name. I hated the swimming lessons. The walk to the baths in a "crocodile", full of foreboding, were amongst the darkest days of my childhood.

Comment from Robert Maddocks on Monday, 9th August 2010.

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