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rules restricting swimming to
certain places at certain hours
and to pass an exam, just as
in other subjects.
By the 1920s Cuckoo Weir
was used by other boys as
well. A Pathé News clip
shows ‘A Boys’ Camp at
Cuckoo Weir’. It opens with
camp leaders in pyjamas
striding past a row of
wigwam tents; they then burst
into the tents, wake the boys,
drag some of them out on