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I was at the school just down the road at Hullbridge County Primary at the time. We had a fund raising event to build a swimming pool (when I last looked a few years back it was still there) and we all put 6 old ...Read more

A memory of Hullbridge in 1965 by Graham Bridgeman

I remember Overdale School as I was there around 1964-1967, but of all the memories and photo's no one mentions Kenwood open air (lido) pool. Are there any photo's out there?

A memory of Knighton in 1964 by Richard Wain

I lived at Ecclesfield and I remember being taken to Cliton Park as a yearly treat aged 7. It must have been a Bank Holiday because the pool was full of kids and lots of parents sat around the ...Read more

A memory of Rotherham in 1953 by Megan Ward

I remember my mum taking us to Lake Meadows in the 60's when we were little; me, my 2 sisters and brother. We paddled in this pool. I later remember taking my own daughter in the 80's. Lake Meadows used to have little boats for kids ...Read more

A memory of Billericay by Gina Gibbs

Yes there was a swimming pool and I remember how cold it was !! I attended Kingsbury County Grammar School (as it was then) from 1956 -1961 Susan Edwards

A memory of Kingsbury

My maternal grandparents ran a hotel/tea rooms in the High st called “Hove to”. I fondly remember our family visits 3 or 4 times a year (we lived in Rutland), a long drive in those days. I am 62 now and we must have visited ...Read more

A memory of Lee-on-the-Solent by jane06985

My then boyfriend told me to take the throttle of his 650 Triumph Bonneville - putting eye makeup onat the time I believe - said I’ll have the clutch . When I say open her up just let her go - so I did! We went over the Blackwater ...Read more

A memory of Blackwater by hillibeen

My parents returned to UK to put my brother and I into separate boarding schools. I went to Kingsley, Horley from 1960-63. My name was then Alison Kirby. I remember Miss Willetts as my form mistress and she taught Nature ...Read more

A memory of Horley by alison

I left Fraserburgh as an eight year old. but I remember playing round the lighthouse. On the rocks below there was a large pool where we built rafts from herring boxes nailed together and filled with cork floats from ...Read more

A memory of Fraserburgh by boyd.livingstone

i was born in pontefract , paradise gardens, when i married at button park i moved away to leicester, when i came to visit my mum , i would take my children to the valley gardens to picnic and paddle in the pool there .

A memory of Pontefract by carolpearce48