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I was due to be born in Sorrento Nursing Home in September 1954 but my mother developed toxaemia/pre-eclampsia and was admitted in about May 1954. They tried to induce me in August but it was unsuccessful so Jo Jordan was called off the golf course on a Sunday morning to deliver me by Caesarian...
I remember using the swimming baths whilst at Edgbaston High until they built their own, so must have been between about 1962-64. They were tiled, in not very good state of repair, with "bridges" across so that the deaf pupils could lip read the teachers and there were spittoons at the side.