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I lived at Thorn Bank in Potten End from 1956 to 1972. I was born in '53 so it was my whole childhood. We went to the Deer Leap whenever we could in the summer. We used to compete to guess the number of cars there, which could vary from none to overflowing. I suppose I thought that everyone swam in cold water, because my school also had a large, unheated outdoor pool, but I ended up as a record-b…