• Short Summary

    The Isander Ladies' Diving Club put on a display at an indoor swimming pool.

  • Description

    Titles read: "DIVING".

    Location of events unknown.

    Good shots of audience watching diving display put on by the Isander Ladies' Diving Club at an indoor swimming pool. The event is to raise money for the Olympic team.

    Several shots of women diving into the pool. Among those seen are are Peggy Winterton (swallow diving), Joyce Sanderson (Surrey Champion), Maya Hider (runner up in National Diving Championships), Edna Childe (National Diving Champion), Betty Slade and Joyce Sanderson.

    The display is brought to an end by several women diving off the board in quick succession.

    Note: the club is named after the Swedish diver who first performed the reverse dive.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1398.12
    Media URN:
    45541
    Group:
    New pictorials
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    13/01/1947
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:02:08:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:21:57:00 / 01:24:05:00
    Canister:
    NP 122

Comments (1)

  1. Unknown user says

    "Location of events unknown" - it's the Marshall Street baths in Soho. They feature in several other British Pathe clips.

    "Edna Childe" should read Edna Child.

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