barge loads of sand from
Great Yarmouth. The plans
had started in 1902 when the
suitably named Councillor
A.W. Boatman suggested a
permanent memorial to mark
Edward VII’s coronation,
complete with public baths. A
few years later the pool was
dug, providing work for the
unemployed in a town where
‘the distress of the poor was
severe’ and a councillor
presented a pair of swans ‘to
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