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July 17th, 1971 by Peter Bargh

Earning my swimming certificates

Wisewood junior school used Hillsborough swimming baths for swimming lessons. At the baths, now a Weatherspoons pub called Rawson Spring, we could earn swimming certificates, starting  at 25 yards.  Public baths at that time were built to the imperial standard before metrication (25 yards = 22.86 metres). Here’s how swimming certificates typically worked in the […]