Accrington Web - Outdoor swimming around Accrington.

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Originally Posted by JCB (Post 867843)

If it's the same one , Margaret , I can remember going there once when I was about 8 .
My grandma's sister lived in one of those little cottages in Stanhill village , set back from the road , just before you get to what was the pickle factory .

It was a lovely sunny day , and she took us across the road , down a path where we came to this lodge . I can remember people diving from a high rocky ledge into the water .
It was great fun to watch .

The one I recall in that area was quite big, like a gravel pit, was there a bank that split it into two areas? It was very flat open with fields round it. There were mute swans there when I went there. Looked dangerous I never swam in it.

Every summer we used to swim in the lodges on the coppice the main ones were the top 2, lots of people used to go there, they were quite small so no risk of drowning.

Also I recall one summer on a really hot day a whole gang of people all went over to the reservoir at the bottom of Hambledon Hill and were sunbathing round it and a lot swam, that was dangerous.