Rugby. Avon Mill Swimming Pool

Avon Mill Swimming Pool, 20 June 1969.

Reproduced by permission of the Rugby Advertiser.

You may like to see the linked article on the Avon Mill in Rugby that gives the dates when it operated.

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I remember going here on a lovely sunny day when my daughter was about five years old. We sat on the grass and everyone was very friendly and chatted to us. My daughter learned to love swimming here and she later used to swim for Rugby Swimming Club.

By June M Russ (17/02/2016)
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You also had Regent Street baths. It used to be packed, very popular. I went there for lessons at the age of seven to learn to swim. My mother couldn’t swim, so she made sure I could. We did three certificates, I had to dive off a six foot platform – it frightened me to death as I don’t like heights!

It had a bit of a balcony in it where you could watch the galas. It’s where that seat is now, where the seating is.

By J. Ingram (17/02/2016)
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I remember going to the baths when I was younger and the water was unheated and it was very very cold!

I went to Lawrence Sheriff in 1943 and we used the Rugby School’s outside swimming pool (known as The Tosh), and it was as cold as the Avon Mill!

By Mike Widnall (08/10/2016)