This is one end of the pool at St Tibb's High School. Until the 1990s, the school had relied on using a local swimming pool, several miles away at the other side of Mettleham, for its water-based PE lessons. But, in September 1992, the school won a large grant from a joint programme by the UK government and the European Social Fund to finance the building of its own state-of-the-art swimming facility. A section of the school grounds which, up until then, had been woodland, was levelled and cordoned off, and work began on the Dame Judith O'Hara Centre For Swimming Excellence (Dame Judith being the first headmistress of St Tibb's when it originally opened in 1852, and a strong advocate for getting women active and away from a life spent in middle-class parlours and being known only for swooning and fainting, a stereotype she absolutely abhorred and desired to eradicate). The facility opened in 1994 and has been kept up to date in terms of technology ever since (everything about the pool and the pool-room environment can be controlled from a central console in the instructor's office), and it is one of the key features that always makes it into the school's publicity and advertising materials. The pool itself is 65.6ft/20m long, can accommodate four Olympic-standard lanes widthwise, and the water level can be adjusted to any depth from 4ft/1.22m to 6ft/1.83m. There is a stepped section, separate from the listed dimensions, at the other end of the pool for those who require an alternative method for entering the water. There are two changing rooms, suitable for accommodating 20 individuals each, and both containing a 5-station showering and hygiene area. During each weekday of Summer Break, the pool is open for use by anyone who is a current or former student of St Tibb's, with accompanying guest, free of charge. This is on a first-come-first-served basis, and to ease the demand on a facility that can only safely accommodate 50 people, visits during peak times are limited to an hour each, otherwise visitors are allowed to stay as long as they wish. In this picture, we see Madeleine Forrester and Nasira Yousefi (both currently of form 8W), chosen to appear in a series of promotional images, this being one of them. They are wearing the official school swimsuit, which all girls must wear for scheduled swimming lessons. During the Summer Break free sessions, however, this requirement is dropped and any decent swimwear is permitted. (Posed and rendered in PoserPro 11, swimsuits created in Marvelous Designer 9.5, postwork in PSP 2022.)