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Windsor Railway Bridge and Baths Island, Windsor, 1928
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Teitl Windsor Railway Bridge and Baths Island, Windsor, 1928
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Dyddiad 11th August 1928
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  • Windsor Castle

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    Darlun MB
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    dydd Llun 22nd Hydref
    10:56yp
  • Wasn't there river bathing by Eton College boys around here?

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    Darlun dave43
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    dydd Llun 9th Gorffennaf
    12:28yp
  • See EPW006215 a nearby view, where I have placed a pin for 'Athens', the Eton boys swimming area which was further upstream.

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    dydd Sadwrn 1st Medi
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  • Great photo. My dad, his five brothers and two sisters learned to swim in the baths seen in the aerial view. My husband, his sister and brother, also learned their swimming skills in the old Windsor Swimming Baths as did their mother and her family.
    My generation never used the baths because they were deemed unsafe during an outbreak of polio.

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    dydd Mercher 4th Gorffennaf
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  • The main areas of interest in this view are the swimming baths either side of the railway arches, and the poplar trees beyond. None of these trees survive these days although there were still some in the early 1960s. In 2012 the Sydney Camm Memorial, a replica Hurricane, was erected in this area.

    The baths were actually part of a back water of the Thames, around Baths Island. They are believed to have been created in 1904. In Victorian times the swimming area had been moved from this point further downstream, by Jacobs Island, as Queen Victoria did not believe the travelling public on the trains should see bathers undressed! After her death the baths were moved back to this part of the river.

    The river was not a healthy place to swim, the baths fell out of official use in the 1940s. It was not until 1963 that the first purpose built, War Memorial Swimming Pool was opened a short distance upstream from Baths Island, mainly due to the efforts of Cllr. Burton, on the site just up from the bottom R corner of this photograph.

    As of 2012 the concrete sides of the river bank remain but the changing cubicles have long gone. The white lines in this 1928 image are thought to be paths to the steps down into the river. In the centre of the RH bank is a diving board.

    To the right of the baths area there seems to be some works in progress. Certainly by the 1950s this area was a miniature golf course, with paths and a small watercourse. A short distance upstream the ISC boathouse would be opened on May 22nd 1934. This is shortly to be redeveloped as of 2012 providing improved boat facilities.

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