With the world’s eyes focused on the Olympic Games in Japan, memories of the Games of the XXX Olympiad held in London nine years ago come flooding back.
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With the world’s eyes focused on the Olympic Games in Japan, memories of the Games of the XXX Olympiad held in London nine years ago come flooding back.
Exploring London 
Absolutely. We all love remembering the first Olympic Games in our cities, especially if plenty of photos and newspaper reports survived. My father was the water filtration engineer at the 1956 games in Melbourne, so we had tickets to the swimming, diving and water polo. Best time of my life !