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City of Swimmers at the Henleaze Lake Literary Festival

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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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