[cite]Posted By: Chirpy Red[/cite]Seeing that poster immediately brought back the smell of the Gents toilets on the poolside at Plumstead baths......YUK!
I hated Plumstead Baths but my swimming club trained there on a Thursday evening and I had to go.
Woolwich, Greenwich and Eltham baths were much better. Then there was Crook Log and Swanley, two lovely warm modern pools.
How about Erith? The big long warm thing you used to sit on. What was that all about?
Plumstead baths with the glass ceilings.. was grusome. remember when the waterfront opend it was a different world. Greenwich baths was the best learnt to swim there through school, now its the 'fitness' pool..
[cite]Posted By: adamtheaddick[/cite]Plumstead baths with the glass ceilings.. was grusome. remember when the waterfront opend it was a different world. Greenwich baths was the best learnt to swim there through school, now its the 'fitness' pool..
Speranza street H.
Correct. I wonder who Speranza was/is?
It was grim. Still had a laundry at the back in the 60s. Crook log was better but Plumstead was easier to get to and there was a free pass you could get from School.
There was a viewing gallery upstairs around the pool, there was a big Cafe at the end of the building. There was a small pool and also a Turkish Bath and a Slipper Bath.
The worst pool I encountered was the one at the children’s home in Sidcup, The Hollies.
The warmest, Abbey Wood School.
My dad taught swimming at Abbey Wood and Eaglesfield YC's.
He taught me at Plumstead on a Saturday morning in the late 60's. If I did well he'd buy me a toy form Ali Barbas toy shop in Lakedale Road, next to the fire station.
I began swimming competitively at 6 and continued till I was 14, at one stage I was training 6 days a week.
the Library is still on the highstreet still there and still has the musuem in it, me and my dad had a nose around when we moved to plumstead in 2001 quite good passes an hour easily if you like your local histroy as we do.
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This one could run and run.
How cold was in there?
So cold, I couldn't find it, to use it.
I bought a copy of Great Lengths about British Swimming Pools at the weekend. Very good book but no mention of Plumstead Baths where I learnt to swim.
Without looking it up can anyone remember the name of the street where the entrance to the baths was (not Plumstead High St) and what was upstairs?
Woolwich, Greenwich and Eltham baths were much better. Then there was Crook Log and Swanley, two lovely warm modern pools.
How about Erith? The big long warm thing you used to sit on. What was that all about?
Speranza street H.
Correct. I wonder who Speranza was/is?
It was grim. Still had a laundry at the back in the 60s. Crook log was better but Plumstead was easier to get to and there was a free pass you could get from School.
But what was upstairs?
The warmest, Abbey Wood School.
My dad taught swimming at Abbey Wood and Eaglesfield YC's.
He taught me at Plumstead on a Saturday morning in the late 60's. If I did well he'd buy me a toy form Ali Barbas toy shop in Lakedale Road, next to the fire station.
I began swimming competitively at 6 and continued till I was 14, at one stage I was training 6 days a week.
That was the library.
Where was the Library then? Could have sworn it was upstairs of the pool.
The blue remembered hills of youth hey : - )
I didnt learn to box there though.
I then moved to Dartford and got my 1 mile badge at Fairfield pool.
Oi! Forty Flipping Seven I am :- )
So without looking it up where does Blue Remembered Hills come from and no it's not the Dennis Potter play great as that was.
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the Land of Lost Content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went,
And cannot come again.
now that was very cold & you had to dodge the floaters..................eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
thats KB hugging his knees ;-)
never ;-)