More Swiming Pools
Again, following on from my last post about a swimming pool. Why is it that swimming pools are always wrong in some way or other? A few spring to mind.
Leeds "International" Pool was designed and built by the architect John Poulson who turned out to be a complete crook and the Olympic size pool that Leeds Cit Council were paying for was about three feet toooooooooooo short of being "Olympic" size and so was ever after called Leeds International Pool.
Another one close to home [Leeds] was Temple Moor High School. A local secondary school, built in the 1960's complete with a swimming pool. Built on the side of a big, fuck off, steep hill with its swimming pool rapidly sliding down the hill towards the city centre.
Swiss Cottage "Leisure Centre", wrong size pool in an area that the local [tax paying] residents didn't want or need.
Think of your local cess, sorry, swimming pool. What controversy surrounded its planning / building and subsequent use.
posted by liits at 1:18 AM
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Hmmm...there's the new one in Peckham, due to re-open soon, having been closed for a couple of years due to cracks under the pool in the pipes. Still at least there's the old Camberwell Baths down the road, crumbling away, with Southwark Council scared to close it as a vote loser, but not prepared to spend any money on it.
I remember the old Swiss Cottage baths, I used to swim in my lunchtimes when working locally, over twenty years ago..I always embarrassingly got a stiffie in the open showers in the changing rooms when someone stood next to me! ;-)
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Turns out he struggles with depression and has difficulty leading a normal life! who would have thought it.
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