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title: "Beeches Pool"
description: "The pool where it all started."
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I spent many a Monday night of my early teenage years swimming in this pool. It was one of Triple-S swimming club's training pools and always felt like the club's 'home pool', even though we swam at a different pool each day of the week. Monday here, Tuesday at Cardinal Wiseman School, Thursday at Castle Vale, Friday at Erdington, Saturday nights at swimming galas across the Midlands, then the occasional Sunday morning session in Brownhills. Every day except Wednesday. No swimming on Wednesdays!

Maybe I associated it with being the 'home pool' because it was also where we had the annual Christmas party swim session.

I've not been here in almost 30 years, and the place hasn't changed a bit, which isn't a good thing.

I still remember my first evening with the club. I was nine or ten, had 'outgrown' my weekly Wyndley swimming lessons, and my instructor suggested I try out for a local swimming club. Mum brought me here for the early session.

I remember being asked to do a couple of lengths in the 'baby' pool to show what I could do. It seemed like a weird request, so I made a protest sprint through 0.6m of water. They put me in the fast lane for the rest of the session, then asked me to come back the following week for the later session... and that's how all this started!