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broomhillsaved
06-03-2006, 12:51 PM
page nine of daily telegraph today 6th March
"Britain's long lost lidos are springing back into life"

numerous campaigns mentioned including broomhill's and the one for droitwich

London Fields lido will re-open this summer "becoming one of Britain's few 50-metre heated outdoor pools......this lido will be to Olympic specifications so that it can be used as a training pool for London 2012"

For those near Ipswich or East Anglia articles about the conference and the broomhill campaign have also been printed today in the local Evening Star and the East Anglian Daily Times

Log on to www.savebroomhillpool.org and click on press coverage to read articles.
Wildswimmer
06-03-2006, 09:30 PM
And the full Telegraph article can be seen here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/06/nlido06.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/03/06/ixportal.html
Dreama
06-03-2006, 09:34 PM
Ours never closed, though it's 50 yards not 50 metres and the council stuck a wall down the middle so now it's about 30 yards one side and 20 the other! What a waste! The slides are good though :-)
dave1986l
14-03-2006, 11:43 PM
i have a lido i love it! and its always busy in the summer

the thing is.......its freezing! and also at the shallow end its probably about 2 yards deep - surely these things affect swimming? i mean for a start my muscles felt odd lol
Leprechaun
15-03-2006, 10:46 AM
i have a lido i love it! and its always busy in the summer

the thing is.......its freezing! and also at the shallow end its probably about 2 yards deep - surely these things affect swimming? i mean for a start my muscles felt odd lol

Very astute observation, but, as you will see from the link, a lot of people just get in and get going!

http://www.slsc.org.uk/coldwater.htm

Our Guildford Lido is 50m and heated (for the softy Southerners amongst which I now reside) but is bliss on spring/summer late autumn mornings.
broomhillsaved
15-03-2006, 11:32 PM
i have a lido i love it! and its always busy in the summer

the thing is.......its freezing! and also at the shallow end its probably about 2 yards deep - surely these things affect swimming? i mean for a start my muscles felt odd lol

dave where is your lido? i really miss ours! five of us are off to London today - 16th march to attend lido conference.