This picture was sent in by reader Gordon Francis whose memory was nudged by our story earlier this year about Maidstone Swimming Club.

It shows the Maidstone Water Polo Team at a tournament at the Gravesend open air swimming pool in June 1952.

Both Peter Witts, top row, and Norman Cox, bottom row, won the Victor Ludorum cup for swimming while attending Maidstone Boys Technical School in the 1940s.

Mr Francis of Bell Meadow, Maidstone, was a member of the club and swam and played water polo in the old pool for many years.

He said: “Looking towards the river, on the left of the swimming baths was the electricity works building and between that and the original bridge was a large yard where the electricity company stored it’s drums of cables.

"On the opposite side of Fairmeadow was a pub called The Lamb. This is where the water polo team entertained the visiting teams with many jugs of Fremlin’s Three Star Bitter.

“During the 1960s and 1970s Maidstone had a very successful polo team which won many tournaments and leagues.

"Although the players are now in their late 60s and early 70s they still have a reunion dinner every other year to remember those good times.”