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Stony in History: Swimming in the River
| Published: 11th May 2011 07:12 |
The following quotes are from Stony Stratford residents interviewed by Living Archive in the early 1990's recalling how they learnt to swim in the river
The Mill Field was where I used to go swimming. Where the weir is now. At one time it was just the river but Mr Charlie Woollard he was a sort of benefactor, he put up a shed for the girls and just a sort of open lean-to for the boys. But the boys and girls weren't allowed down there at the same time.
How we used to swim in those days, you got thrown in but they did have a pole with a rope on the end and a leather belt so you put your arms through that and somebody would hold you up through the water. More often than not you learnt the hard way.
We used to swim from the floodgates down by the Mill down to the Calverton Road bathing place and back.
They put a diving board in, I remember one chap diving in, it wasn't very deep and cut his chest open on broken bottles on the bottom...
This information has been provided by Living Archive. For more information, visit their website at www.livingarchive.org.uk.
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