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

Hand-drawn plans of Parson's Pleasure, Long Bridges and Tumbling Bay river swimming spots, used as part of the My Pool or Yours? workshop held at the Museum of Oxford on 22nd July 2023. The plans are blank, ready to be annotated by participants of…

A reproduction of an entrance ticket for bathing at Parson's Pleasure from the 1960s.

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

A quote from Iris Murdoch, reflecting on her experiences swimming in the Thames with her husband.

A map of 22 of Oxford's historic river bathing places along the River Thames and River Cherwell.

1. Wolvercote
2. Black Jack's Hole
3. Fiddler's Island
4. Port Meadow Stream
5. Tumbling Bay (aka "Tum")
6. The Sheepwash
7. Boney's Bridge
8.…

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

Jenny Holloway recalls how she and her brother found an alternative to river swimming during a polio scare.

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