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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #60 on: October 10, 2012, 06:13:25 PM »
The outdoor swimming pool. Where I spent all the summer holidays. S x x x x

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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #61 on: October 10, 2012, 06:16:45 PM »
Six penneth of chips (old money) with crispy bits and (for the really ancient like me) biscuits in big tin boxes with glass lids in the grocery shop in front of the counter and the owner would get one out for me when I went in with my gran  =+-
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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #62 on: October 10, 2012, 06:17:52 PM »
Oh yes shaz, the outdoor swimming pool with the little hut type things to change in - and the stag beetles sometimes hiding in the corner of them  ::)

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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #63 on: October 10, 2012, 06:22:58 PM »
OMG yes. We had a little sweetie hut on the grass as well, and metal cages to put our clothes in and we had to hand them in and remember the number. Sadly there are houses built on the land where our pool was :(.  S x x x x

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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #64 on: October 10, 2012, 06:48:38 PM »
I remember the cages too, we usedtyo get a rubber band to slip over our foot onto our ankle with the number on  _)_

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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #65 on: October 10, 2012, 07:05:02 PM »
We would spend all day there. Remember swimming in the rain it was lovely. S x x x x

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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #66 on: October 10, 2012, 07:11:47 PM »
I dont think there are many outdoor pools these days :(

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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #67 on: October 10, 2012, 07:17:52 PM »
No there isn't which is such a shame, the indoor pools are nice but they are not the same as you cannot spend the day there. We would take our packed lunch and eat it on the grass. S x x x x

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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #68 on: October 10, 2012, 07:24:37 PM »
We did too, I can remember learning to swim in an outdoor pool  _)_

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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #69 on: October 10, 2012, 07:27:53 PM »
I also remember doing my life saving in my pyjama's retrieving a brick from the bottom of the pool. S x x x x

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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #70 on: October 10, 2012, 07:34:05 PM »
Omg yes, me too  =+-

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« Reply #71 on: October 12, 2012, 07:38:24 PM »
There are a couple of outdoor pools in London, Lido's, I think they're called.  I remember the metal cages and the colour rubber band.  The siren would go off and a certain colour of light was displayed over the pool.  In those days, when your colour came up, you promptly obeyed and left the pool area just in case the attendant gave you a clout round the ear

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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #72 on: October 13, 2012, 01:56:38 PM »
I think some if them at least were called lido's, we really loved swimming in the local one in summer  =+-
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Re: What do you remember?
« Reply #73 on: October 13, 2012, 07:43:50 PM »
Us too. Couldn't wait for it to open. S x x x x

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« Reply #74 on: October 13, 2012, 08:06:16 PM »
A bit too cold for my liking.  The Lido in Tooting Bec, near me, is open early mornings during winter.
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