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training of Sea Cadets throughout the whole of the British Isles and Northern Ireland.
He told the Mercury reporter that this was the first time he had been in charge of a
swimming pool, but he was looking forward to the work and expected little difficulty.

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Sat 8 June
SWIMMING POOL OPENING
The new swimming pool at Luckley School, Wokingham, referred to in last week’s
paper, was opened on Saturday by Mrs. J. Hodges, president of the Berkshire Amateur
Swimming Association. Immediately after Mrs. Hodges had declared the pool open,
Wendy and Carol Miller, 14-years-old twins, became the first Luckley girls to use the
pool, diving in together and swimming its 75 feet length. The head mistress, Mrs.
E.M. Galloway, had told the visiting parents—the opening coincided with sports
day—of the history of the pool project, which would be completed when new
changing accommodation was built. Mrs Galloway paid great tribute to Mr. L.E.
Whitmore and Mr. A. Sears, who had designed and built the pool, and to the many
parents and old girls who had supported the appeals for funds which had been made
over the past ten years.
After the opening ceremony a team of swimmers from the Reading Borough Police
gave a demonstration of life-saving, with a commentary by Mr. R. Donovan, and then
senior girls of the Reading Swimming Club—including the Miller twins—gave a
display of the latest swimming techniques.

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Sat 17 Aug
“UNCLE STANLEY” CALLS
The man who is “Uncle Stanley” to thousands of young film fans all over the
country paid a surprise visit to the Ritz Cinema, Wokingham, on Saturday morning to
meet the children at the “Minors’ Matinee.” “Uncle Stanley”—Mr. H.G.S. Winch,
head of the Minors Department of associated British Cinemas—congratulated the
audience on their singing and good behaviour.

LIBRARIAN LEAVING
Leaving Wokingham at the end of this month to open a new library at Havant, will
be Mr. Frank Bagulay, of 52, Sturges Road, Wokingham, who has been a librarian at
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Montague House since January 1 , 1952. Mr. Bagulay came to Wokingham from
Leicester, where he was with the city library, and was the first full-time librarian at
the Wokingham branch of the county library. Since then he was seen it grow in size
and popularity, and he been concerned with the formation of a branch at Bracknell,
which opened in 1953. Mr Bagulay, who is married and has a son and daughter, takes
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up his new position on September 2 , but his new branch will not be opened until
October. He has been an enthusiastic member of the Wokingham Literary Group since
its inception and has served as secretary.

NEXT WEEK’S FILMS
The story of how a young, pleasure-loving man (Tab Hunter), fails at a university
and in his early days in the army, but eventually proves himself a courageous soldier
and rehabilitates himself in the eyes of his parents, his girl friend and his superior
officers is told in “The Girl He Left Behind,” at the Ritz Cinema, Wokingham, at the
beginning of next week. Natalie Wood is the girl in the title rôle. “The Lone Ranger,”
also showing, tells of one man’s fight to restore peace between ranchers and Indians,
and is a well-made “Western.” Clayton Moore (The Lone Ranger) and Jay Silverheels

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