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As a school girl from St. Bernadette's, I remember learning how to swim in the very cold water. We had no choice but to jump in the icy water. It was really freezing when we changed out of our cold wet bathing suits back ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1957 by Eileen Oliver Nolan

I was also a pupil at Friar Park from 1955 to 1962. I have nothing but wonderful memories of this amazing school. As a little girl the endless drive with rhododendron bushes eventually opening into this huge circle ...Read more

A memory of Henley-on-Thames by Catherine Edwards

I have wonderful memories of visiting 'Tamworth baths' on a Sunday afternoon. I loved swimming underneath the concrete barrier and always had to watch I didn't lift my head up too early! Mum used to take me and she ...Read more

A memory of Tamworth in 1980 by Caroline Kay

I was bought up in Dagenham and went to Valence swimming pool regularly with my school. If you had signed up to go swimming at the start of the school year you had to go  - whatever the weather!! I always had a cup of Oxo ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1968 by Elaine Sutterby

We lived in the village shop Virginia Stores owned by Peatling & Cawdron.  My dad won the Vernons Football Pools in 1955 - a great sum of  £505.6s -  my sister and I had new bikes and Mum and Dad went for a holiday to ...Read more

A memory of Dersingham by Carolynn Langley

I was born in Crouch End in 1963 and lived for 22 years of my life in Buckley Court, Carysfort Road, a small block of council flats in quite an exclusive road.  My Grandfather, John Leo Monnington, was relieving officer for the area ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1963 by Lucinda Cotton King

I briefly attended Charlestown Infants' school in 1942 as it accepted children a years earlier than Mount Charles Infants (just a mile away) which I lived just a few yards from on Porthpean Road.  I was four years ...Read more

A memory of Charlestown in 1953 by Peter Marks

My mum worked at Valence open swimming pool and my aunt worked in the buffet - what a result - in for free and free Oxo after the freezing water.  My mum looked after the ladies locker rooms - she remembers the boys trying ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1967 by deborah.hayes

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

REMEMBER, REMEMBER WE must have been thirteen. Cousin Keith and I sat on a small flight of steps, what remained of a burnt-out bungalow overlooking the village. It was May Day. Hot and ...Read more

A memory of Mochdre in 1952 by Elwyn Edwards