You can set the sort order of messages? Just click on the link in the date column. Your preferences will be remembered, so you don't have to do it again when you return.
Hullo, Can any members recommend operating lidos in Paris? Im spending a week there in July. Id particularly like to know if there are any with diving boards....
If you log on to the broomhill site www.savebroomhillpool.org and click on "interesting links", there is one called Swimsites:the swimming directory; Click on...
Dear All, An artist called Toni McGreachan (female) did a 'residency' at Tooting Bec Lido a few years ago. She produced a superb series of paintings, most of...
Janet Smith
member@...
Apr 7, 2006 2:18 pm
1084
Janet, lots of people paint at the Ladies' Pond, and the Mixed Pond theoretically only with coL consent , the Ldies Pond assoc is always looking fo post card...
Mary Cane
mcane@...
Apr 7, 2006 10:44 pm
1085
... Tooting Bec Lido a few years ago. She produced a superb series of paintings, most of which sold very quickly. ... lido that would be willing to offer her...
I had this email today. For further information please see pp. 120-125 of Janet Smith's book "Liquid Assets" (which has 9 photographs). Oliver Janet Fenton...
Welcome to Adele Chaplin, who lives in Ipswich. Oliver She writes: "My interest in Lidos started when I found out that Ipswich had one which was closing! I am...
Yes it was in Saturday's Daily Mail magazine - an article by Mary Greene called Back in the Swim. Can't find in online but others may be more successful. ...
Jackie Spreckley
jackie.spreckley@...
Apr 11, 2006 8:56 am
1090
The article picked up on a lot of the human interest stories from Liquid Assets - i.e. interviews with divers, bathing belles, regular lido users. It also...
Janet Smith
member@...
Apr 11, 2006 10:34 am
1091
At my request, David Merrigan has kindly taken some photos in the last few days of The Ducker, now part of Northwick Park, Harrow, in north London. He created...
One link seems to got garbled..... http://homepage.ntlworld.com/oliver.merrington/lidos/lidos1closed.htm#ducker (The 1905 photo / postcard was supplied to me...
Hi Vanessa Piscine de Plein Air La Grenouillere, a huge lido complex out in the Parisian suburbs, has a diving pool with spring, 3m & 5m boards. These were all...
Just received a mailing from the London Fields User Group: The Lido development is coming on at an incredible rate. All the underground pipe work, which always...
Some months ago The Broomhill Pool Trust (Regd.Charity 1102659), signed up with Justgiving.com to enable us to offer an on-line donation service: this is...
Long time ago now (1980s) I visited the Piscine Molitor in Paris. When I was last there in the early 90s it was closed, hopefully for refurbishment, but I...
sue taylor
suetaylorben@...
Apr 14, 2006 7:24 pm
1100
I have moved the entry for the 50m London Fields Lido, which is due to re-open in July 2006, to the London Lidos webpage. It first opened on 30 April 1932. see...
Welcome to Steve Lloyd-Janes, who is vice chair of the Hendy Pool committee. Some of you may have met him at the Reviving Lidos conference in London in March...
... committee. ... London in March 2006. Hendy was the only pool campaign which sent along its MP to the conference - Nia Griffith, Labour MP for Llanelli. ......
Further to Steve's message about his intention to propose to his union that the government assist with funding outdoor pools, we intend to present the ...
Jackie Spreckley
jackie.spreckley@...
Apr 21, 2006 6:12 pm
1104
The Reviving Lidos conference proceedings document is available to download from the Played in Britain website here: ...
Jackie Spreckley
jackie.spreckley@...
Apr 23, 2006 3:15 pm
1105
Welcome to Dave Merrigan from Harrow, in North London. You will remember he recently took some photos of The Ducker, Northwick Park, Harrow. See...
This is a remarkable document, worthy of close study and wide dissemination. Well done, Jackie & Jo !! For members with Yahoo IDs there is another copy (725 KB...
... What a wonderful digest. Thanks to Oliver, Jackie, Janet, etc., et al. Now who is going to start that comparative study of purpose built Open Air Swimming...
I was reading some press releases about Everyday Swim on the Amateur Swimming Association website http://www.britishswimming.org/ Here's the lowdown (taken...
Alan (Fred) Pipes wrote something I never knew, on my Flickr photo page on Saltdean Lido http://www.flickr.com/photos/lidos_org_uk/103449358/ "The platform on...
Oliver In Janet's absence, the cable car story is on page 150 of Liquid Assets. Best wishes Simon ... Contacts for Simon Inglis: tel: 020 7794 7474 mob:...
