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06-03-2006, 12:51 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Ipswich
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Monday March 6th 2006 Daily Telegraph - London Fields lido for Olympic training
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. |
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06-03-2006, 09:30 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Runcorn, Cheshire, near Liverpool: 2008 Capital of Culture.
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And the full Telegraph article can be seen here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../ixportal.html
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06-03-2006, 09:34 PM
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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 :-)
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14-03-2006, 11:43 PM
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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 |
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15-03-2006, 10:46 AM
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Open Water Eejit and secret wildswimmer
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Quote:
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.
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15-03-2006, 11:32 PM
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reply to dave's " i love my lido"
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