Bracknell Swimming Pool

A Memory of Bracknell.

Bracknell Swimming Pool was created by my Great Uncle Ernest Noyes who was married to my Great Aunt Mary Spong. Her niece Margaret Irene Spong who later married Jack Hayward was my mother and she used to take us here on the train from Camberly where we lived. I have wonderful memories of those times with all my Bracknell family including Henrietta Snooks my great great grandmother married to Charles Spong. I have many photos of the family from the 30's to the 40's around the pool. The pool is long since gone and so has Rose Cottage where my mother returned to live next to Uncle Ernest's shop now Ballcock and Bits.So many changes!!! I wonder if there are any of our relatives still living in Bracknell..
Julia Hayward

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Added 20 June 2019

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I remember the swimming pool, there was a fountain that we used to jump in and out of, about the only thing you could buy was cream filled wafers and bottles of pop
On a sunny day it was great.
My School (Priestwood) used to take us there for swimming lessons,, it was to be another 50 years before I learnt to swim

By Albert Hancy on Tue Aug 25th 2020, at 9:04 am

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I am glad that the pool brought such pleasure to families and created good memories for all of us except those wasps!

By miss_devinette on Tue Aug 25th 2020, at 11:20 pm

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I used to live in Martins Lane where the pool was situated.

By Joanne Morley on Sun Nov 20th 2022, at 12:38 pm

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