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Pat Hanks recalls picnicking outside Long Bridges after school with her family.

Pat Hanks recalls the differences in gender segregation at different bathing spots in Oxford.

Pat talks about swimming at an unauthorised spot at the new Donnington Bridge and her father's reaction to it.

Pat Hanks recalls getting to the bathing place at St Clements and taking a swimming test there.

Pat Hanks recalls sporting on the river and having to give up rowing due to sexism.

Photographs of signs used at demonstrations against sewage pollution in the River Thames.

A photograph of a protest wherein swimmers swam with fake excrement and a giant roll of fake toilet paper in the river to draw attention to Thames Water's sewage dumping practices.

A photograph of a banner that was dropped from a bridge in Henley, as part of the demonstration against Thames Water's sewage dumping.

Pat Hanks recalls fish in the river at Tumbling Bay and Long Bridges and a slide into the shallow end.

Pat Hanks recalls the journey from Cowley Road to Long Bridges and the gender segregation rules that meant her siblings had to bathe separately.

Pat Hanks recalls how Long Bridges bathing place used to look.

Photographs of participants ideas for the future of Tumbling Bay, Long Bridges and Parson's Pleasure bathing places from the My Pool or Yours? workshop (held at the Museum of Oxford on 22nd July 2023 as part of the Dive In! exhibition programme).