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Thanks for posting this. Wish I had checked the content of this email this morning as was wandering in Covent Garden this afternoon so would have popped in to...
colette_hollands
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Oct 3, 2009
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Oliver, Thanks for flagging this one up. Last Thursday I made a visit to the Margaret Howell exhibition in Wigmore Street. I never had a chance to speak to her...
Peter Stechman
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Oct 3, 2009
10:48 pm
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This is the link to the other article that goes with the exhibition in Margaret Howell's shop: this is written by Margaret herself and mourns the pending loss...
broomhillsaved
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Oct 4, 2009
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Oliver, sorry the bit on Swiss should have said opened by HM The Queen in 1965. I think I was November 1964 that Sir Keith Joseph laid the foundation stone....
Peter Stechman
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Oct 4, 2009
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We were fortunate enough to be inivted to the launch event for the exhibition ­ it was a delight to see Great Lengths and Liquid Assets on sale. Check out the...
Jackie Spreckley
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Oct 4, 2009
3:26 pm
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Aaron Newton has sent me the item that appeared in the South London Press last week, so I've put it ( SLondonPress1.gif ) in the Files* area of the Group...
Oliver Merrington
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Oct 5, 2009
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Hi Jackie Have got three questions: 1) Did you gather what the latest news about the Ladywell Pool is, because there's very little on the internet about this...
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Oct 6, 2009
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2543
Hi Sally As this is a lidos forum I¹ll reply to you direct, so as not to irritate other members! Jackie From: broomhillsaved <broomhillsaved@...> ...
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Oct 6, 2009
5:34 pm
2544
Welcome to Dorothy Ireland, who lives in Wokingham, Berks. Oliver She writes: "As Dorothy Akers, I was born and bred in Highbury in North London, and learnt to...
Oliver Merrington
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Oct 7, 2009
10:15 am
2545
Welcome to Jim Willis, who lives in Maidstone, Kent. Oliver He writes: "My interest in outdoor swimming developed from my youth - growing up in North London...
Oliver Merrington
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Oct 8, 2009
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2546
I have just heard that Christ's College in Cambridge are hoping to restore the only Grade I Listed outdoor pool in England - which is currently a very murky,...
Oliver Merrington
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Oct 8, 2009
8:21 am
2547
It seem that Yahoo had changed the way attachments are dealt with, without informing me, so I have amended this. You should all get the attachment this time! ...
Oliver Merrington
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Oct 8, 2009
11:04 am
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NOTICE OF AGM FOR THE PORTISHEAD POOL COMMUNITY TRUST (Their first one!) The first AGM of the Portishead Pool Community Trust will take place on Thursday 12th...
broomhillsaved
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Oct 9, 2009
2:46 pm
2549
Cirencester Open Air Pool supporters celebrate the end of a successful season: ...
broomhillsaved
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Oct 12, 2009
7:03 am
2550
Sorry - too many noughts in the previous message: £2,500 raised (not £25,000) The pool operators kept the lido open for an extra week this year: ...
broomhillsaved
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Oct 12, 2009
7:18 am
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OvlKgrlwtA The Broomhill Pool Trust would like to thank Mr Edwin Mason of Kesgrave for providing us with rare 8mm footage of...
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Oct 13, 2009
1:46 pm
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Really lovely to see this Mark: those were the days when diving was allowed! (Also - no obesity problem back then.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OvlKgrlwtA...
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Oct 13, 2009
5:12 pm
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The campaign group trying to save the Holywell Mead pool in High Wycombe from permanent closure, held a public meeting last night (October 13th 2009) Some of...
broomhillsaved
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Oct 14, 2009
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2554
Hi everyone You may all be interested to read my report (below) on our visit to this pool in the summer of 2007 during our lido challenge. It seems almost...
Bob Holman
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Oct 15, 2009
7:11 am
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Bob - have a look at this message from Pooling Resources: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poolingresources/message/1889 I spent quite a lot of time reading the...
broomhillsaved
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Oct 15, 2009
2:38 pm
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Hi Sally It does seem very much that way which is really sad. The only way forward if there is to be happy outcome is for local people to continue to fight...
Bob Holman
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Oct 15, 2009
3:54 pm
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Welcome to Richard Davies, who lives in Petersfield, Hampshire. Oliver He writes: "I came to swimming relatively late and learned to swim in the Petersfield ...
Oliver Merrington
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Oct 19, 2009
4:16 pm
2558
Does anyone have a 'potted history' of Alton Open Air Pool? - Iknow it was alive in 1981 but the last I know is that the Trustees called a public meeting in...
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Oct 19, 2009
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Rather late notice, but the film "On A Clear Day" about a fictional Channel swim is on tonight at 10.45pm on BBC1 A very sweet film about an out of work...
broomhillsaved
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Oct 21, 2009
7:49 pm
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The local Evening Star has done a splendid write-up on the 1947 film footage of Broomhill pool taken by Edwin Mason: ...
broomhillsaved
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Oct 22, 2009
7:13 am
2561
Good news for the Beccles Lido campaign, as Beccles Lido Limited have now achieved charitable status; this is another big leap forward in the long campaign to...
broomhillsaved
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Oct 26, 2009
10:29 am
2562
Interesting blog here on the joys of "outsourcing": Lambeth Council have 2 different operators for their leisure facilities: Fusion for the lido and GLL for...
broomhillsaved
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Oct 31, 2009
10:44 am
2563
Hi everyone I have just been told the Wild Swimming programme featuring Robson Green will bwe shown on the 8th.and 15th December on ITV1. I would imagine that...
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Oct 31, 2009
6:51 pm
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I just read about this pretty outdoor pool dating from 1936 in the village of Filkins, near Broughton Poggs, which is 5 miles south of Burford in Oxfordshire....
Oliver Merrington
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Nov 2, 2009
10:24 am
2565
Pools may like to contact their local or county museum to see if they subscribe to this. Not sure what they mean by "other publicly-funded bodies in the...
Oliver Merrington
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Nov 7, 2009
8:09 am
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