diving  which   featured    in
government  propaganda  after
the Second  World   War to
show    Britain was ‘back   to  its
old self    again’.
During  the 1940s   the
King’s  Meadow  pools   were
still   used    for school
swimming    lessons,    just    as
children    were    taught  at
Tumbling    Bay in  Oxford.
Local   historian   Gillian Clark,
who was born    in  Caversham
and grew    up  in  a   boat-
                    
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