A swimming instructor recognised all over Nottingham who has taught hundreds of children to swim in the city has opened up about her long career. Now, after 25 years, she has retired.
Speaking of her love for the sport as a child and how instructing with Nottinghamshire County Council had never felt like a job, Jackie Bailey, 57 said that retiring was a “tough” decision to make. Jackie, who is originally from Nuthall, still lives in the area.
Despite retiring, Jackie has said that she won’t be able to help herself from visiting where she has worked for the past 25 years. Jackie said: “I mainly started [instructing] at Kimberley. I was a swimmer myself from a young age, before I went to school I could swim, I swam a mile at six.”
