Wigan Album

It brings back memories of learning to swim at the old baths. I remember the ‘blue cabins’ were we changed. I also remember a photo in the newspaper of a group of swimmers and I was sat on the steps aged about 12. I kept the cutting but like a lot of things it was lost. We were never away from those baths.

This takes me back a ways.

I used to pay sixpence a week to a woman who tried to teach us to swim I just couldn't learn with someone else telling me how.. ( she was actually on the tv programme 'Whats my line',..my Dad bought me a rubber ring from the Army and Navy stores in Wallgate and I taught myself..I must have always been awkward.