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Old swimming baths are things of beauty, I can't be arsed googling my childhood old school baths, but they weren't as nice as those pictured. The 80s came and with it those new out of town leisure centres, all breeze block and plastic roofs, and 'wave machines'!! I love swimming, and go 2 or 3 times a week, just a shame they only have 1 lane for fast swimmers, its a bit shite sometimes!!

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Originally Posted by Macca

At least they built something on the site of your baths even if it was a crappy law courts. Here's what's on the site of ours:

https://i.ibb.co/CsrW4pC/bath.jpg

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It does look like they have plans for it - they've kept the stone facade and binned everything else. Probably end up housing an accountancy firm in a futile bid to look cool. We have a 'repurposed' waterworks in Chorley that has gone this way.

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Originally Posted by Mikeandvan

Old swimming baths are things of beauty, I can't be arsed googling my childhood old school baths, but they weren't as nice as those pictured. The 80s came and with it those new out of town leisure centres, all breeze block and plastic roofs, and 'wave machines'!! I love swimming, and go 2 or 3 times a week, just a shame they only have 1 lane for fast swimmers, its a bit shite sometimes!!

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You have a lane all to yourself, apart from the ferries and container vessels... some folk are never happy :doh:

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Originally Posted by Mikeandvan

Old swimming baths are things of beauty, I can't be arsed googling my childhood old school baths, but they weren't as nice as those pictured. The 80s came and with it those new out of town leisure centres, all breeze block and plastic roofs, and 'wave machines'!! I love swimming, and go 2 or 3 times a week, just a shame they only have 1 lane for fast swimmers, its a bit shite sometimes!!

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You have a lane all to yourself, apart from the ferries and container vessels... some folk are never happy :doh:

Oh and this was the inside of our baths - there was also a smaller pool too in the building which was about 2/3 size, and something called "slipper baths" which I think was for folk who didn't have a bath at home. Oh and cafe in the basement where we'd have a cup of Bovril and a bag of crisps afterwards.

https://live.staticflickr.com/8497/8...c8e5376b_b.jpg

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

You have a lane all to yourself, apart from the ferries and container vessels... some folk are never happy :doh:

Oh and this was the inside of our baths - there was also a smaller pool too in the building which was about 2/3 size, and something called "slipper baths" which I think was for folk who didn't have a bath at home. Oh and cafe in the basement where we'd have a cup of Bovril and a bag of crisps afterwards.

https://live.staticflickr.com/8497/8...c8e5376b_b.jpg

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A bit fancier than ours'. but along same lines really. i won a fair few medals in tho. 25yds i think which got extended to 25 metres. its gone now tho and housing built on it i think. bovril came from a machine in lobby.

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Originally Posted by struth

A bit fancier than ours'. but along same lines really. i won a fair few medals in tho. 25yds i think which got extended to 25 metres. its gone now tho and housing built on it i think. bovril came from a machine in lobby.

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Scotland's answer to Johnny Weismuller... Did you ever do the yodel? A bloke I used to work with claimed he once saw Johnny Weismuller at Wigan baths. Nobody believed him

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Scotland's answer to Johnny Weismuller... Did you ever do the yodel? A bloke I used to work with claimed he once saw Johnny Weismuller at Wigan baths. Nobody believed him

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lol.... i swam on tv and everything:D


was a bit dangerous having all that water on top the tv but, hey we were brave in those days:eek:

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Scotland's answer to Johnny Weismuller... Did you ever do the yodel? A bloke I used to work with claimed he once saw Johnny Weismuller at Wigan baths. Nobody believed him

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Probably because he claimed Cheetah was there too, swinging off the diving board.

I've got Duncan Goodhew's head, but the similarities end there.

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

You have a lane all to yourself, apart from the ferries and container vessels... some folk are never happy :doh:

Oh and this was the inside of our baths - there was also a smaller pool too in the building which was about 2/3 size, and something called "slipper baths" which I think was for folk who didn't have a bath at home. Oh and cafe in the basement where we'd have a cup of Bovril and a bag of crisps afterwards.

https://live.staticflickr.com/8497/8...c8e5376b_b.jpg

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What's that thing at top? Looks like a stage! There were 2 baths in my hometown of Newport, Maindee and Stowhill, I didn;t realise at the time, but Maindee was quite a beautiful pool, I went there loads. It's now closed, along with stow hill (3 pools, 1 diving board!).

Maindee.

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