This pool was probably the most important location when we were in our early teens although to be fair the story started before that.  I met Leigh in the  late summer of 1966 when sheila was just 11 but nearly 12..  I was just nine months older but I think we sat and held hands.  We both loved swimming and had both learnt to swim quite late.  This pool was to be the focus of our lives for quite a while.  We would swim in the morning before lunch and again in the afternoon afer lunch.  We would then sometimes swim in the evening.  They did not have sessions like they do now just three periods morning, afternoon and evening.  We both had a season ticket whch cost us ten shillings.  That is 50 pence and it was for the whole summer.  I was a fat chubby 12 year old and Leigh had long dark hair and wore a black bathing costume and looked lke a seal, black and shiny.