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  Saturday Afternoon Swimming Fun

  I wonder if they still do it? They don't at our local leisure centre for fear of breaking health and safety regulations. We used to go to our local swimming baths on a Saturday afternoon and the owners of the baths ...

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  Summer of 1976 (UK)

  'Use Water Sparingly' signs in the toilets at Junior School. Standpipes in the streets and the usual ban on using hose-pipes and car-washes. But the best memory of the summer of 1976 I have is being out in Derwent Valley, Derbyshire, ...

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  Summerland Leisure Centre Fire

  One of the British Isles' forgotten disasters, this horrific event took place on the Isle of Mann on the night of 2nd August 1973 and claimed the lives of 51 people, with 8,000 injured.Opened in the Manx capital Douglas in ...