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that the request be turned
down, with the plan finally
being abandoned in 1885. A
decade later and the City of
London School had its first
organised swimming team,
perhaps taking advantage of a
swimming pool in the nearby
St Bride’s Institute. The
school’s own ‘fine swimming
pool’ opened in 1937.
According to some reports,
after a sale by auction failed
to meet the asking price the