Groby, The Pool c.1960
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Before the birth of theme parks, a day out in the late 1950s (when comparatively few people owned a car) was by Midland Red bus to Groby Pool, Swithland Woods and Bradgate Park, with the statutory climb up to Old John. Once it was larger, but its 40 acres qualified the pool as the largest sheet of water in the county until the 19th century, hence the saying 'to thatch Groby Pool with pancakes' indicates any impossible undertaking. The photograph looks north, with Pool House glimpsed on the extreme right, while the granite quarries are beyond the trees.
An extract from Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories.
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