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Cockfosters, The Swimming Pool, Trent Park c.1965
Photo ref: C579004
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More about this scene

To the east of the house, the swimming pool, with its red-brick orangery designed by Reginald Cooper in the mid 1930s, presents a peaceful well-ordered scene. This is a small part of an extensive improvement scheme initiated and implemented by Sir Philip Sassoon, the third Baronet, which was continued until his death in 1939.

Memories of Cockfosters, the Swimming Pool, Trent Park c1965

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Cockfosters, The Swimming Pool, Trent Park c.1965

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Whether it was 1965 or a year or two later, I'm not sure. Again all of us used to swim here in the summer holidays, when the college was closed. It was near sunset and we'd dried and changed in the orangery to the rear. We were sitting on the steps watching a film crew setting up where the cameraman of this photo was standing. Intrigued, we hung around waiting to see what happened. Eventually several actors were ...see more