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Original Text (Annotation: EAW022719 / 831115)
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Just out of view off the far left corner of the playing field was a swimming pool, inset into the woods. It was not heated and it received limited sunlight so was always cold. The summer term included compulsory swimming periods and we had to go in. The water temperature was often in the mid 50s (F)or so, say 12 to at most 15 degrees Celsius. The pool was also used by the pupils of the next door Northfield School for Girls.
We often played in the woods after lunch. They were owned by the school. The rear of the woods was fenced as it marked the side of the steep cutting in which the steam trains ran on the LMS Euston-Scotland mainline. A few hundred yards up the line to the left were the entrances to the rail tunnel.
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