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Crawley Long Course Opportunity Level 3 Open Meet - 3rd October
All Eastbourne entries have been accepted, and the warm up/start times can be found on Crawley's website.
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Click here to access the results of the Eastbourne Sea Swim and SER open water ranking following the event. Click here for the photos...
Uni pool closure - LATEST CHANGE
To ESC swimmers & parents of the training squads, the University of Brighton swimming pool will remain closed this September. We have had to change the schedule of the development group, please, check the new version of this document:
Letter September training schedule 2010 (30 kB 2010-08-31 13:46:30)
Check the dates for our summer break...
Have a lovely Summer and see you in September!
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Page 1 of 3 1866...When It All StartedESC is the largest and oldest swimming club in Eastbourne with over 300 regular swimmers and with a long and interesting history. 1866. That's when Eastbourne Swimming Club started. Nearly one hundred and forty years of teaching, practicing and enjoying swimming and the other water disciplines. Quite an achievement for a voluntary organisation. How did it happen?In 1864 a John Brown moved from London and opened a furniture business in Pevensey Road. He started to swim in the sea and was joined by a few other swimmers. 1866 John Brown proposed that a Swimming Club be formed, from a meeting of interested swimmers. A John Easter was elected as Hon. Secretary & Treasurer of Eastbourne Swimming Club. Membership was 2 shillings and 6 pence a year (12½p) - this included the use of swimming drawers!? Club members met on the beach opposite the Royal Marine Hotel at 0700 hours, the club did not have any lady members. (Proving that even in those days Ladies had common sense) As Eastbourne Pier had yet to be built the club members purchased a 15 ft (about 5 metres) diving board mounted on trestles, this was also the prop for one of the first photographs of members as seen here. More later: how building of the Eastbourne Pier divided the club.
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