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HENLEAZE SWIMMING LAKE

Whilst Novak Djokovic was demolishing
Rafael Nadal on the centre court at
Wimbledon I was being taken back to a
much simpler less sophisticate time. My
afternoon was to be spent as a guest of
the Henleaze Swimming Club which was
holding its special Long Swim event.
As I looked over the Henleaze Lake for the
first time I thought I had died on gone to
heaven! It was so tranquil, so beautiful, so

peaceful and I could have stood and
stared all day.
Andrew Stewart, chairman of the club
greeted me in the car park adjoining the
lake and I was presented with a scene from
an earlier era. Families lying on the grassed
surrounds, youngsters idly chatting the day
away, older folk perhaps reminiscing on a
G P Lewis distant past. Humankind spending a quiet,
peaceful quintessentially English Sunday
Interior/Exterior Painter & Decorator afternoon. I loved it!

Andrew and I sat for a while and
All aspects of painting and talked about the club which has
been affiliate to the ASA since a
decorating undertaken including year after its founding on 5 .May
th
Domestic, New builds, Refurbs 1919. It was a condition of a Major
and Commercial. Badcock, the then owner of the
lake, that a club was formed to
Qualified and with over 30 years regulate swimming in the lake after
experience, will offer friendly a recent drowning caused him to
ban the sport for a while.
advice if needed. The lake, originally called

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