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Old 07-10-2014, 14:45   #136
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Old 07-10-2014, 16:00   #137
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Old 07-10-2014, 19:28   #138
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And Mr Smith fre' Clayton also taught us to swim.
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Old 10-10-2014, 09:23   #139
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I think Grace was his 2nd wife, was Grace Rothwell of Rothwells transport and a former Mayor of Accy, but she wasn't the one who gave the swimming lessons
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Old 10-10-2014, 15:22   #140
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I think Grace was his 2nd wife, was Grace Rothwell of Rothwells transport and a former Mayor of Accy, but she wasn't the one who gave the swimming lessons
Pretty sure the woman who taught at the old baths was a Mrs Broadley, Big D
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Yes, it was Grace Broadley who taught me to swim...back in the dim and distant past.
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Yes, it was Grace Broadley who taught me to swim...back in the dim and distant past.
Did it cause yeh to have nightmares?
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Old 11-10-2014, 10:29   #143
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Could both his wives have been called Grace?his second wife was definitely called Grace but she wasn't the swimming teacher that was his first wife,
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Could both his wives have been called Grace?his second wife was definitely called Grace but she wasn't the swimming teacher that was his first wife,
That could be it Big D
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Old 13-12-2014, 21:12   #145
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Lancashire BMD says that Alexander Broadley married Marian McPherson in 1930. Marian died in 1967 age 66 in Accrington and Alexander Broadley married Grace Rothwell at St John's, Baxenden in 1967. People kept mentioning the Mrs Broadley who taught swimming and I wondered who she was, so many thanks. Now I know! I think Alexander's father was George Edward Broadley who married Margaret Clark.
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Old 01-05-2015, 14:30   #146
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Thanks for the trip down memory lane
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Old 03-11-2015, 17:48   #147
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Eddie McGarry and his Broadcasting Band??
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Old 09-02-2024, 21:43   #148
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I lived on Warwick Ave in one but not for long as we moved to Crossland St up Willow Ln
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Old 16-02-2024, 21:19   #149
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The old flat roof houses on Lancaster Avenue.

Built during the war for the workers at the Bristol factory, I think
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Used to live in one of those. They were cold & damp, but good family sized houses.
I lived on Warwick Ave

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