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[Olliebeak]

SWIMMER, on 26 June 2010 - 12:45 AM, said:

............ When I tell my four grandchildren that they look at me and laugh can't blame them, I don,t think I could hold it for ten seconds now lol.

Sounds as though we're about the same age, Swimmer, as we both remember those stone steps. I went to the Baths with Rivvy School from around 1959 (3rd yr juniors)

Strange how our grandchildren can never envisage us being anything other than 'their grandparent'.

An old schoolfriend sent me an class photo (via email) from 1960. I copied it to my comp, enlarged it and then challenged my partner, kids and grandkids to find me on it. None of them were right!

Since then, my mum has discovered old baby photos of me and it's great to see my 2yr old granddaughter looking puzzled when I tell her that 'the baby' is ME!

[gypsygeoff]

Fascinating reading the stories about the Baths.I remember the diving boards,and that chlorine smell was a nightmare.I agree regarding the building.Its just another icon of the town thats gone under the demoltion hammer.It still pisses me off to think they knocked down Helena House.

[Phyll]

I Agree!

[Olliebeak]

Sometimes in the summer the side door to the baths was left open and anybody walking down the path from the park to the Campbell Street could see straight into the large pool. Maybe it was a way of letting excess chlorine fumes out of the pool area - cos you could certainly smell them walking past.

[Le200]

You should have nipped in with your camera, Ollie.
I don't think I've ever seen a pic of the inside of it.... has anyone got one?

[SWIMMER]

swimmer here no pics but maybe there might be some of the swimming galas. Are you talking about when the cubicles where around the pool or after the rebuild when the baths were remodled. I know that when we were swimming in galas there were people taking pictures where they went and who they were I don't know let me know swimmer.

I also agree that they should not have demolished Helena House.

PS Phyll did you get my PM

[Allan]

I remember the Dances i went to at the baths might have been mid 50s.

[citijen]

Pies and Barms!! does no-one remember the Brycreem dispenser just before the exit?

[gilly]

citijen, on 24 July 2010 - 12:54 PM, said:

Pies and Barms!! does no-one remember the Brycreem dispenser just before the exit?

Surprised you remember it!With your head LOL

Edited by gilly, 24 July 2010 - 01:07 PM.

[Steve]

That little shop over the road after swimming we'd buy one of those mini hovis loafs to chomp on while we made our way back to town centre for the parr bus.

[SWIMMER]

Yeah I loved those I was always hungry after swimming so I used to get one of the long loaves and filled them with puffed crisps, If there was any left by the time I got home nipped to Freddies and filled it with ice cream.lol

[Olliebeak]

I lived so close to the baths (Lingholme Road) that there was barely time to eat a mini-Hovis on the way back home - and no chance of even that if my Nan came with me .

[SWIMMER]

Olli lived nearly round the corner from you, well to be precise down Kirkland Street and round the corner, so I had a bit more time to eat them than you. Its a wonder I wasn't as fat as the proverbial pig when I was young, must have burned them off with all the exeriselol

[Olliebeak]

My son now lives in Rodney Street, Swimmer !

PM on it's way to you Swimmer.

[SWIMMER]

replied to your pm Ollie