RE: Another smack in the eye for Brummies - 3

I lived across the road from Nechells baths. I had a swimming pass and spent every single day there. I would come out with my eyes red raw and stinging from the chlorine and my dad would go mad at me. On Sunday morning we would all troop over the road for the washing baths as we had no bathroom at home only a tin bath. I remember being thrown in once and at that time couldn't swim. I was dragged out with the big hook on a pole. I decided there and then to learn to swim. I also swam for my school and did the birmingham schools galas at Woodcock street

Thanks all, Woodcock street, as soon as I saw the post I remembered, like many of your posts I learnt to swim after being thrown in, for me it was at Gt Yarmouth in the summer holidays, they had peddle boats that you peddled around a sort of artificial river, after being dunked, I went to Yarmouth pool every day and learnt to swim, once home I realised that going to the pool and becoming a fair diver impressed the girls, particularly when I dived off the 10mtr level - so it all worked out rather well LOL

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thanks all woodcock street as soon as I saw the post i remembered, like many of your posts I learnt to swim after being thrown in, for me it was at gt yarmouth in the summer holidays, they had peddle boats that you peddled around a sort of artifical river, after being dunked, i went to yarmouth pool every day and leart to swim, once home I realised that going to tthe pool and becoming a fair diver impressed the girsl particular when i dived of the 10mtr level - so it all worked out rather well LOL

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I would expect nothing less, I went 8 years ago, each time I come back I spend a lot of time around the coast, Weston Super Mare, Weymouth, Torquay, Poole, Blackpool, Margate, Ramsgate, Yarmouth, nothing much ever seems to change it's a bit of a time warp. Oxford is much the same as it was when I left in 1973, minor modifications to the city centre but not much. The upside is it reminds me of being young, the downside is it apears no progress has been made in over 40 years.

Totally agree. We always went to rhyl for our holidays. If you go now the front has changed but the back streets seem the same.

I don't know if its been done up, but we passed through Rhyl on the way to Llandudno a few years ago, the fair looked like it was only fit for demolition.
Llandudno on the other hand was a lovely place, very well kept.