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#3 Students from Woodthorpe Council School celebrate their new pool taking a swimming lesson in February 1938.

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#3 Students from Woodthorpe Council School celebrate their new pool taking a swimming lesson in February 1938.

What Swimming Lessons Looked Like a Century Ago (Spoiler: No Swim Goggles)

#3 Students from Woodthorpe Council School celebrate their new pool taking a swimming lesson in February 1938.

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←#2 In 1906, the preferred method of teaching kids to swim looked a lot like fishing. These children are in the River Thames at Wallingford, kept afloat by ropes attached to poles.
#4 This novice swimmer is instructed on the proper form for a dive during his 1955 lesson.→

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