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the 1970s. ‘I remember
having to sink low in a punt,
hat over face,’ recalls Heather
Armitage, Tourism Officer at
Visit Oxfordshire. ‘The men
used to stand up at the
riverside, gazing out, bits a-
dangle. Ladies were supposed
to get out of the punt and
walk round the other side but
no one did. You can still see
the concrete blocks that
formed the bases for diving
boards.’ In 1934 women and

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