Bob and Dave feature in the Cotswold Journal this month as they dive into Chipping Norton pool; their lido effort sounds quite magical at times, especially the...
We swam 3 more lidos on Tuesday: Bathhurst Open Air Swimming Pool, Lydney Lido 36: Tuesday 31st. August 2007 I was due to swim down the Thames with some other...
Hi All, rare visit to this group but thought some of you might be interested... Went to Plymouth last night and spent half hour on the Hoe with a camera. Only...
I assume Bob means: Bathurst Open Air Swimming Pool, Lydney Lido 36: Tuesday 31st July 2007 Stratford Park Leisure Centre, Stroud Lido 37: Tuesday 31st July...
Anna Wardley has progressed from being an occasional swimmer to being ready for the challenge of crossing the Channel this coming week. Log on to...
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AlexBuxton@...
Aug 6, 2007 4:22 pm
Dear Bob and Dave Please do come and swim at Jesus Green Swimming Pool in Cambridge! The Guardian is doing a special supplement on outdoor swimming - it was...
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Janet Smith
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Aug 6, 2007 4:41 pm
The third leader in today's Guardian is in praise of Roger Deakin. http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,2142219,00.html Janet...
The volunteers who run the Weardale Pool in Stanhope, must be feeling thoroughly disheartened, after vandals targeted the pool. The appalling weather in July...
Catch up with encouraging news from Banbury by visiting their website; Derrick Knight, Paddy Castledine and many others have contributed to successful...
Steve Lloyd Janes has sent in this encouraging press release from the Carmarthenshire County Council website, which is certainly a turn up for the books. Hendy...
Tracey Davies wrote to Oliver on 6 August 2007 ... See also http://www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk/index.asp?locID=7089&docID=14188 Brynaman Swimming Pool [1934] is...
Hi there I've just received the newsletter from SPL and it says that the Lido won't be opening until 15 August, not 11 August as planned. Free admission for...
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Janet Smith
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Aug 10, 2007 8:11 am
Excess Baggage on Radio 4 tomorrow (Sat, 10.00 a.m.) will be devoted to open-air swimming. The presenter is Arthur Smith and the guests include Charles...
I e-mailed in a letter to the Times yesterday and it has been included with others under the heading "Ways we can measure our Olympic success" Letters August...
The local Mercury flags up the struggle for Weardale Open Air Pool; the weather is probably set to boomerang the other way now, so let us hope that some of the...
Nick's four photographs are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lidos_org_uk/tags/risca/ See http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/lidos/message/1653 Oliver...
Hi John I am really sorry but we wont be swimming Droitwich on 15th. August after all. We are unable to complete our revised programme because Dave has become...
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DERRICK KNIGHT
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Aug 14, 2007 12:01 pm
HI BOB, Read your last memoir with great interest. I was born and grew up on Poole Harbour and learnt to swim in the then Sandbanks Hotel after falling...
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AlexBuxton@...
Aug 14, 2007 12:50 pm
Lovely descriptions but Hitchin not Hitchen! BTW the Guardian section on outdoor swimming postponed to August 25 but I suppose it might be held over to next...
An interesting debate has started on Pooling Resources http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poolingresources/message/369 following on from dangers of "tombstoning" -...
I've said on another list I'd get really hissed off when the kids started dying. That's now happened at Minehead and I'm hissing like a bad tempered nest of...
Both the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and the Great Britain Diving Federation are urging people to find somewhere "safe" to dive, but the answer is that...
Unfortunately the 200% increase with diving evidence is mostly anecdotal. I have no doubt that these figures are valid but proving it might be difficult. It's...
Lovely photos! Isn't that just what we need? Safe place for all the family? 10m platform for the tombstoners. In media/tombstoner measurements that's about...
The Fire and Rescue Service is urging people to cool off in Peterborough Lido rather than risk swimming in local lakes and rivers. Residents in Peterborough...
