Simon and Jackie will be coming to Ipswich on 7th Dec to give an illustrated talk on Britain's sporting heritage; this is part of the Ipswich at Play...
How about Richard Branson, he is the type of bloke who may want to take on the challenge and turn around the fortunes of this facility and he has the funds to...
Peter Stechman
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Dec 2, 2006 11:58 pm
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I started a thread on the subject of leisure centres under threat on the www.swimclub.co.uk website and a debate has sprung up between those who favour closing...
I don`t know if any of you are familiar with the following web site: http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/ It aims to record the East Midlands in photographs. ...
... Specific URL is http://www.swimclub.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=6412 Interesting..... but worrying to read from one anonymous person (Juicy Lucy from...
I usually post on the Open Water Forum of Swimclub.co.uk but the news alerts had thrown up several leisure centre closures/or threatened closures, so i posted...
Piotr Kalinowski, Chair - Friends of Jubilee Park Steering Group, wrote to Oliver today: "East Lindsey District Council* Executive Board voted yesterday to...
I sometimes wonder whether one could protest that no councillor should vote for closing a pool unless they could swim at least 100 metres: non-swimmers are...
Just a quick note to advise [that thanks to Sally's efforts] that the Trust was contacted late yesterday by BBC News 24 who are conducting a feature on lidos -...
Welcome to Carl Parris, who lives in Seven Sisters, N. London. He writes: "My local lido is Covent Garden Oasis, or Crouch End Lido. I have been going to the...
BBC News 24 team has a new cultural program exploring communities in the UK. On Thursday, 7 December two BBC News 24 teams visited Ipswich to film various...
I'm sorry, but the previous link I posted didn't work! Sorry. Hope it does this time. http://sports.webshots.com/photo/2534567550076482484hnBXXm Send instant...
The long awaited report on OBESITY has now been published See www.nice.org.uk Have not had time to go through it yet, but stomach stapling for obese children...
There are lots of old photos of this pool on the Friends of Jubilee Park website: http://www.woodhallspa.org/groups_fojp.html#history See Photo Gallery, rows...
The BBC Action Network has been set up paricularly with community interests and campaigning in mind. Anyone can write articles, set up a campaign, update a...
The campaign for saving Ladywell Pool has come to a successful conclusion and some of the press releases are recorded on the London Pools Campaign website;...
Also the Victorian Society reports on their historic pools campaign: "After months of working alongside local people in Kentish Town, where we ran a pool...
Hello all, Wishing you a very happy Christmas and exciting 2007 swimming in old & new lidos. Card attached - please print, preferably on thin card, and place...
Happy Christmas Oliver; the fight for Broomhill moves into its fifth year - just as well we can't see into the future when we start something! Impossible to...
BBC Action Network will feature four campaigns in their New Year Resolutions page from January 1st, with Broomhill being one of those chosen. Have also added...
Sonia Russé wrote to Oliver on Monday 8 January 2007: We are currently an embryonic group of private individuals who are in the very early stages of seeking...
2007 is forecast to be the warmest year yet From Met Office website http://www.metoffice.gov.uk 2007 is likely to be the warmest year on record globally,...
The London Fields Lido in Hackney, London, is "temporarily closed to allow scheduled minor works to be completed by the construction contractors." Hackney...
Welcome to Tim King, who lives in Torquay, Devon - Oliver. He writes: I learnt to swim in a Lido - but not in England - and was swimming in rough seas before I...
Welcome indeed, Tom, have you ever looked through the British Pathe website. The digitised newsreel content is available free, and has lots of lovely footage...
[Sent to me by Sally - Oliver] Lido seeks cash lifeline or risks going under writes Sam Burson Western Mail (South Wales) 16 Jan 2007 ONE of the last lidos in...
