Rowing And Swimming!

A Memory of Grays.

I can remember heading down to Grays Beach with a couple of friends after school in the mid 1960's and spending a few pennies for half an hour rowing on the boating lake. During the summer holidays, it was not unknown for us to climb over the railings and have a swim! We didn't hang about too long as usually the bloke in charge of the boating lake would chase us off, or else one of us might cut our foot on the rubbish on the bottom of the lake and we'd have to go home to have it cleaned up!