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I lived in Grove Road as a child, and spent a lot of time at Larkswood Pool - my friend and I used to practically live there in the summer holidays. We would get season tickets, so we could go as often as we liked, and ...Read more

A memory of South Tottenham in 1960 by Kathy Dancy

I lived in Henshawe Road so I could see the pool from my bedroom window. I cannot remember the exact year, but my friend Maureen and I learnt to swim there - no official lessons so Im not sure how, but we did. From then on ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1964 by Elaine King

Valence Park swimming pool I remember always being cold. It cost a couple pennies in old money, cup of oxo and a thick biscuit, and the old changing sheds by the pool, 2 foot gap top and bottom of door, freezing, haha. The noise in ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1960 by Brian Cole

i have some wonderful memories of visiting my grandma in the early 1960's in Ecclesfield, and later moving there to live in 1967. my dad's mum and dad lived in Ecclesfield and every Sunday we would go for a walk around the church ...Read more

A memory of Ecclesfield in 1960 by Elaine Platts

My friends and I .Mick Abbott John Bryant we were the first swimmers in @Kingsbury for 4 years running ,one year it was a FREEZING 48 DEGREES!!!! We sometimes went before and after school also during the summer holidays ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1960 by Nigel Allum

I used to go to Brentwood swimming pool with my school St Martin's for girls and can remember going when it reopened for the new year - easter and it was absolutely freezing! I was not much of a ...Read more

A memory of Brentwood in 1962 by Janet Aldridge

Growing up in Enfield, this pool was quite a fave spot, especially during my teens - the 1960s. They always displayed the current temperature, and the security in and out was way ahead of its time - like Fort Knox, I ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1964 by Sue Rowe

This has bad memories for me. When I was a student of Bridgemary School in the first two years in the summer we had to go down by coach to the baths to learn to swim (at 57 I still cannot swim). It was always cold and we had ...Read more

A memory of Gosport in 1965 by Marten Humphries

As a school-boy I had a job working for W.H.Smith at Barking Station. I started when I was twelve on a paper round, but after a short while the shop manager, Albert Hedges, decided I could work one of the platform ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1960 by Joss Ollett

One of my biggest memories is playing British bulldog and when the South African Navy came to build the swimming pool also the Christmas pantomines we used to go to at the various navy bases. Do you remember that massive ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville in 1964 by Lindsay Anne Alexander