It is a lovey photo. Which row is your mother in? I can see the name Rose. How old were they?

I wonder what the policeman was doing there?...and who was the chap with the peaked cap?

My Mother ( Dolly) Mary and her sister (Rose) Rosalind Marsh are in the front row, their ages were around 10 & 11 at the time the photo was taken. I don't know who the man in the peaked cap was, I'm sorry I don't know anymore about it.

I go to that swimming club and I am amazed that it has been going for sooooooooooooo long!

Marion, I am a teacher at the club, do you or anyone else have Shiverers memorablia, and can we use your photo on our club website?

Patricia, of course you can use the photo on your website. I'm sure if my mother was still alive she would have been very proud that you would want to use it. I'm afraid I have only got a few photos of my mother, her sister & their Shiverers friends. Swimming is in our blood as you can see if you look at the page on 'Hove Swimming Club Water Polo Team 1896' under Local Folk featuring my mother's grandfather William Marsh. My sister used to swim in the school sports for Pelham Street School during the 1950's & swimming was the only school sport that I liked and was any good at!

I was very interested in the photo as I'm looking for information relating to my mother when she was a member of the Shiverers. However your photo is too early as my mum's era would probably be between 1930-40. With regards Patricia Willis' comments I do have a medal that my mother won in 1934 in an "Girls Under 16" race.

I remember one very cold winters morning (February) and there was thin ice on the water and members of the Shiverers Club were in the sea swimming around. I was about 11 years at the time and I went in to the sea with them. I think it was warmer in the water than out. Icy wind blowing. I got a dreadful cold and was off school for a few days.

I was a member of Shiverers from 1962 till 1966. They were great times. My swimming friend was Ian Gadd. We went to training and then to his house for tea, listening to records etc. I remember a swimmer called David West who had all the girls chasing him because he was in the water polo team and he was a bit of a hunk. The highlights of my swimming days were in 1965 when I won the Sussex Championship 110 yds Freestyle, just beating a lad called Barry Evans on the touch. I had the trophy on my TV at home for a week and then it had to go to my school...Portslade School for Boys. This gave me the chance to go to the England finals in Leeds, which I did and came fifth. I met Alan Kimber there and was shocked to see him shaving his legs...he won the race though. It was highlighted on ITN World of Sport and when I returned was the hero of the neighbourhood and school. My Maths and Swimming teacher was Mr Watts...he was so proud, as I'd beaten all school records, previously held by Alan Drew. My mum went straight out and bought me a pair of leopard skin Speedo trunks. I was the bee's knees...

My mother was a Shiverer sometime between the wars, possibly in the 1930s. I remember she told me that she used to take part in the pier to pier race between the West and Palace Piers. Does anyone else know about this race?

I was a Shiverer and still have a wooden plaque from 1961 when I was in the under 14s breaststroke. My brother was in the club before me but, had left by the time I joined, his name is Alfred. I remember Dave West, his mum and dad used to teach us. I still swim, an instructer asked me recently if I had been taught as I have a perfect stroke, so that can't be bad at 61! It also shows what good teachers we had.

When I worked for Heating and Vent in the early 60s, two of my workmates were Shiverers. Jimmy Funnel was one and another one whose surname was Churchill. I can't remember his first name.

The person I remember most that was a member of the Shiverers in the late 60s was my best mate and school friend Peter Baxter, who also swam for our school at the King Alfred baths and his speciality was the butterfly. Unfortunately Peter passed away in his early 50s from a heart attack about 5 years ago. RIP Pete.