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Kingsbury Swimming Pool Before World War 2.
A Memory of Kingsbury.
I remember waiting impatiently for the pool to open on May 2nd each year. The entrance was 2d, and 7/6d for a season ticket. There were always long queues on the first day of opening. I was 11-12 years old when I first could swim, learning on the river at Marlow bathing place which had been fenced off as a swimming centre. My favourite drink afterwards was hot oxo in the cafe there.
As a junior at Roe Green (next door) we were never taken for swimming lessons before the war as local children here in Brighton & Hove are now. We really loved the place. I remember Mike Ashman who was a wonderful diver, he hardly made a splash. His father was Mayor of Wembley and a local headmaster. The pool was I am sure subsidised by the Council. It was of great benefit to the children particularly.
Winifred Jeffers (nee Neighbour) - aged 81 years and still swimming regularly!
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