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Learning to Swim

Royal Brine Baths c1950
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I remember visiting the Brine Baths from our Junior School - there was a small pool (quite chilly) where we were all taught to swim. We then graduated to the large pool, where we still used to go from the High School.
My brother learnt to swim when he was thrown in at the deep end of the large pool (not so much Health and Safety around in those days). It was literally a case of sink or swim.
It was a lovely building, which we probably didn't appreciate at the time, but obviously in need of updating internally. Has it now been demolished on the altar of modernity?

Written by Anna Davies. To send Anna Davies a private message, click here.

A memory of Stafford in Staffordshire shared on Thursday, 9th April 2009.

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