Comments on: Swim Lesson 5: A lesson in not swimming

By: monica

monica — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:52:47 +0000

Sally, thanks for the comment, and for posting a link to the yahoo group (I’ve signed up!). World Winter Swimming Championships… sounds like fun. I’m not really ready to go competitive but I’d love to find a club. Any ideas?

Good luck saving Iswich and Broomhill… anything we Hackney folks can do?

By: Sally Wainman

Sally Wainman — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:31:03 +0000

Always great to see good news about lidos! Have just recently returned from the World Winter Swimming Championships held at Tooting Bec Lido on the weekend of 8th-10th Feb (2008)amidst glorious sunshine, where I was helping out as a volunteer.

My own fight has been for the Ipswich lido, Broomhill Pool, which closed in 2002; a continuous campaign has been fought since that time to save it and a Heritage Lottery bid will be made by the Broomhill Pool Trust very soon now.

In April, Broomhill Pool will be celebrating its 70th anniversary (1938 - 2008) and hopefully will be on its way to being truly ’saved’ for future generations.

By: monica

monica — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:57:44 +0000

I feel VERY fortunate to live so close to TWO pools that are open year round. I definitely wouldn’t be swimming if it wasn’t easy enough to do so. (If the traveling takes longer than the swimming, there’s no way.)

By: Dave Child

Dave Child — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:00:05 +0000

I find it very frustrating that there are so few decent pools in Brighton and Hove. Near me (and I use that phrase loosely) there is just one - the King Alfred Leisure Centre, and that’s closing in August for rebuilding - for 2 or 3 years. That leaves just one decent pool that I know of - and it’s going to be absolutely heaving. And 40 minutes away.

I worked out it’s actually quicker for me to take the train to Worthing, and go to one of the leisure centres there, than to go into Brighton.

Then there’s the sea, but that’s a little nippy at this time of year. And not overly pleasant.

I’d really like to do more swimming, but Brighton and Hove council don’t make it easy!