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City of Swimmers at the Henleaze Lake Literary Festival

BRHG's Steve Hunt will be speaking about his new book City of Swimmers at the Henleaze Lake Literary Festival. His talk will be aptly accompanied by a display of synchronised swimming. Full programme below. Saturday 14 June, Henleaze Lake, Lake Road, Henleaze, Bristol BS10 5HG Note: booking required.
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Book launch: City of Swimmers

A radical history of Bristol’s pools, lidos and wild swimming

In the 1930s, the Bristol Baths Committee announced its aspiration “Every Bristolian a swimmer”, setting a target that every home should have a swimming facility within a mile. City of Swimmers is a verrucas-and-all history of swimming in Bristol, from the eighteenth-century Rennison’s Baths in Montpelier to the beautiful historic Jacob’s Wells and Bristol South baths, and the mostly overlooked pools in more recent leisure centres. Readers may have memories of a world of award patches, metal […]
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