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yes i remember those days mort...not happening now though lyn

The education department did, I recall go out of its way to encourage young school children to learn to swim. Free passes were one of...

hope no one minds but reading these sad stories about the young children that died from drowning and even the sad cases we hear of today...

I agree Lyn, we took our children when small to the baths and both learned to swim. We had moved within yards of a canal. My daughter...

My Brother Alan (8) was drowned playing at Valley Pit colliery reservoir in 1947. It wasn't in Birmingham but, I just wanted to mention it.

Its looking like it was a fishpond for years, maybe associated with Oscott College. Then was remodelled into a paddling pool when the...

Just thinking about it, Aston Brook and Hockely Brook (are they one and the same?) have had a couple of drowning incidents in that deep...

It was always concreted 'when I were a lad' ;) I remember going there as a child, I also remember going with a mate through the tunnels...

There most certainly was a pool in Finchley Park, I recall it was a paddling pool lined with concrete 2 or 3 feet deep, so enough to...

There is a death registered for Patrick J Cox, aged 8 in the 1st quarter of 1941 in Birmingham. I think his birth might be 4th quarter...

That's the boy Lloyd, Nellie Cox (Barlow) was my Ma in law. I was told it happened in Finchley Park, that might be wrong as I'm not sure...

My uncle, John Robert Larvin aged 4, was pushed into the canal at Sheepcote St on 12th May 1930 by 2 8yo boys. I have all reports and...

You were lucky, it’s a wonder you did not fry in your own fat falling in the Rivar Tame, it was so polluted then like a river of toxic...

Perry Park 2024, Severn Trent Water storm overflow spilled 5 Times for total of 2.88 hours into tributary of River Tame.

I have just found a newspaper article on FMP relating to the drowning of my partners niece and nephew. It is in the Birmingham Daily...