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Swimming
17/09/2026
French Tests, Swimming and a Letter from the Outside World
Jonathan Vernon
14/09/2026
A Secret Superpower: I taught myself Pitman Shorthand at Boarding School
Jonathan Vernon
08/09/2026
The Tuck Box, the Haircut and Going Back to Sedbergh
Jonathan Vernon
04/09/2026
From Gosforth Baths to “Posh Prison”: September 1976
Jonathan Vernon
02/09/2026
Writing, Researching and Publishing on the Move – My Favourite Five Phone Apps
Jonathan Vernon
25/08/2026
Gosforth, August 1976: Bathwater, Girlfriends and a Teenage Diary
Jonathan Vernon
24/08/2026
Fourteen in Gosforth: Heatwave, Swimming and Growing Up
Jonathan Vernon
23/08/2026
Appleby Castle to Gosforth: A Teenage Summer Day in 1976
Jonathan Vernon
22/08/2026
Whitley Bay 1976: A Fourteen-Year-Old’s Date at the Leisure Pool and Spanish City
Jonathan Vernon
21/08/2026
Summer 1976: Siphoning Bathwater, Buying Chart Singles from Woolworths and on the phone to my ‘girlfriend’
Jonathan Vernon
20/08/2026
Grandpa at Eighty, a Russian Record Player and time spent with my girlfriend, August 1976
Jonathan Vernon
18/08/2026
Rose Cottage and Beadnell: A Teenage Diary of Memory, Loss and Belonging, August 1976
Jonathan Vernon
05/08/2026
The Great Drought of 1976: Bathwater, Hosepipes and a Teenage Summe
Jonathan Vernon
03/08/2026
Northumberland Street, Fenwicks and Flares: A Teenage Diary from Newcastle, August 1976
Jonathan Vernon
01/08/2026
From Castle Life to City Baths: A Teenage Diary of Swimming, Sinus Pain and Space: 1999
Jonathan Vernon
21/07/2026
Appleby Castle, the Montreal Olympics and a Forgotten Diary: Memories of Summer 1976
Jonathan Vernon
20/07/2026
Fencer Hill Park to Appleby Castle: A Teenager’s Summer Holiday Diary, July 1976
Jonathan Vernon
19/07/2026
The Bedroom Above the Kitchen: Memory, Identity and Teenage Escape in 1976 Gosforth
Jonathan Vernon
18/07/2026
Northumberland Baths, Mark Spitz and Being Last in the Lane: A 1976 Diary Reflection
Jonathan Vernon
10/07/2026
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss: ADHD, Career Change and Finding My Place
Jonathan Vernon
06/07/2026
From Everest to Mercury: A 1976 Teen Diary of Exams, Athletics and Ambition
Jonathan Vernon
04/07/2026
Coaching Swimmers
Jonathan Vernon
26/06/2026
Packed Lunch to Kendal: A Long Day Waiting for One Relay Race
Jonathan Vernon
22/06/2026
Breaking School Records: A 14-Year-Old Swimmer at Sedbergh in 1976
Jonathan Vernon
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