Do These Photos Bring Back Memories????

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22659

I remember going the weekend it opened back in the 70's. It was a really big deal then. In answer to your question' a definite yes!

Why aren't there any floaters? I remember once seeing a piece of shit in the shallow end.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:07 pm

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:08 pm

What is it - is it a leisure centre ?

Certainly doesn't llok like it from the front.

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:09 pm

Is that the Mill House - the one BBC TV did Antiques Roadshow from?

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:10 pm

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:11 pm

That's not the leisure centre surely?

Feedthecow · **Joined:** Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:26 pm **Posts:** 180

Hopefully i'm not being caught out here by POK superior wit, but surely he cant be from Hartlepool if he doesnt recognise Mill House

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:13 pm

The first slide....

A bloke I know lost a nacker when showing off on this slide....landed boolocks first onto the railings below!!!! confised

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:16 pm

chip fireball wrote:

yeah i was playing 5 a side there about an hour ago.

The top photo....the Bowls Club isn't even there never mind the Sports Hall!!!! :shock:

That photo must be from when it first opened....1972 I think!!!! :grin:

Our lasses Grandad was a brickie on it!!!! :grin:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:17 pm

Poolie of Kent wrote:

That's not the leisure centre surely?

It is but these photos are from the 70's & 80's!!!! :grin:

So why can't it be a Leisure Centre????

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:19 pm

Poolie of Kent wrote:

What is it - is it a leisure centre ?

Certainly doesn't llok like it from the front.

The lettering on the front of the building says....'Swimming Pool'....so I guess that's what it is!!!! :grin:

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:20 pm

MutleyRules wrote:

Look at it, it looks so abstract !

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:21 pm

PS....Also....the Architect of the baths....George Bromley....won an award for the futuristic design!!!! :coool:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:22 pm

Poolie of Kent wrote:

Look at it, it looks so abstract !

You should try cleaning the fecker!!!! :evil:

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:23 pm

Feedthecow wrote:

Hopefully i'm not being caught out here by POK superior wit, but surely he cant be from Hartlepool if he doesnt recognise Mill House

The fact that I live in Kent and have only seen it on Antiques Roadshow gives it away that I live in Gillingham.

You can hardly see the words swimming pool.

It looks so much more ornate than ours down here and it opened twenty-five years later.

Is that the one by the Mill Hous pub, must be, and near it there is a skateboard ramp and basketball courts liternally adjacent to the Mill House stand !!!

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:29 pm

That's the one Mr.Kent!!!! :grin:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:31 pm

Mr I wrote:

I remember going the weekend it opened back in the 70's. It was a really big deal then. In answer to your question' a definite yes!

Why aren't there any floaters? I remember once seeing a piece of shiit in the shallow end.

I actually fished some out of the Little Pool on Tuesday!!!! :uhoh:

Hangem · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:36 pm

I remember when i could get the bus to the baths,go swimmimng have a drink and crisps for the vending machine and get the bus back to greatham all for a

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:37 pm

Poolie of Kent wrote:

That's not the leisure centre surely?

What the fook do you think it is like, a concentration camp?

This surely isn't a message board!?

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:43 pm

MutleyRules wrote:

The first slide....

A bloke I know lost a nacker when showing off on this slide....landed boolocks first onto the railings below!!!! confised

For how long has the slide looked that!!?

Last time I was in, to be fair maybe 12 years ago you a little trip outside on it. It looks almost naked and loads less fun.

Feedthecow · **Joined:** Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:26 pm **Posts:** 180

POK. I will apoligise if i'm wrong. I thought you were originally from Hartlepool, only recently moving darn saff to go to uni or something similar.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:05 am

PJ_Poolie wrote:

For how long has the slide looked that!!?

Last time I was in, to be fair maybe 12 years ago you a little trip outside on it. It looks almost naked and loads less fun.

That slide was from the Mid 80's....it's been replaced by the one that goes outside!!!! :grin:

Jonny · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:09 am

I haven't been to the baths for years - it was since i found out that your eyes sting because of scruffy little shits not washing and pissing in the pool. I thought it was due to over use of chlorine before that.....

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:10 am

That's bollox Mr.Johnny!!!! confised

Jonny · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:11 am

Well why do your eyes sting for hours after you go to the baths then....?

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22659

MutleyRules wrote:

PS....Also....the Architect of the baths....George Bromley....won an award for the futuristic design!!!! :coool:

Rod the steward ? An architect? :shock:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:58 am

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:59 am

Jonny wrote:

Well why do your eyes sting for hours after you go to the baths then....?

Chlorine....but if you go often enough your eyes get use to it!!!! :wink:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:09 am

H99 wrote:

:wink:
I remember when i could get the bus to the baths,go swimmimng have a drink and crisps for the vending machine and get the bus back to greatham all for a

Don't you mean one of these....

monkeehanger · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:03 am

Certainly takes me back....do you have any pictures of the Space Invaders Machine and the Asteroids one, I'm sure there was another one in between the two but I can't remember what it was?

How about the big inflateable thing that thery used to put in on a Saturday.

Also those strange basket things in the changing rooms!

Ahhhh...happy days!

dawlishmonkey · **Joined:** Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:53 am **Posts:** 1588

some memories there.
I must have paid for those vending machines in the cafe meself the amount of times I bought the kids 10p space raiders or monster munch pickled onion from there after swimming on a sunday morning.I remember harold hornsey used to always be in there sunday mornings with his grandkids back in the dark days,nice bloke.
The mill house was always the cheapest swim in comparison to anywhere else I lived in the country.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Ahhh the memories.

I remember getting the bus from west view, you'd all sit on the bus and see how much you had, me mams give me £2.45... If one kid had a fiver he was pretty much rich!

Whatever happened to that tiny bit of water at the door of the changing rooms just before you got out onto the pool?

I used to love buying a highland toffee bar, sometimes mint, a bag of spaceraiders, and a hot chocolate.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:05 am

The Chocolate Highland Toffee bars were best!!!! :coool:

The Footbaths got filled in cos they never really did what they were supposed to do....they were unhygenic!!!! confised

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

I bet thats the last bit of work that was ever done on the baths?

mouldy old dough · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:54 am

MutleyRules wrote:

The first slide....

A bloke I know lost a nacker when showing off on this slide....landed boolocks first onto the railings below!!!! confised

Iremember that got my arse stuck going down it once....and yes i have..

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Is that a fence inbetween the big pool and the baby pool?

mouldy old dough · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:05 am

Yubep wrote:

Is that a fence inbetween the big pool and the baby pool?

Yes and it is an OFFENCE to take those photo's. bbolt

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

A DJ booth, ellish!

it's weird how little has changed, i can't work out if thats good or bad.

Any photos of the sports hall or anything mutters?

baby lemonade · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:23 pm

ElvisAintDead wrote:

Also, John The M**g at the Baths was always good for a day out. clappp

john the mong!!! :grin:

class!!! and what about cheyenne the wanking man?!

Miss Tigga · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:50 pm

I vaguely remember the elephant slides in the baby pool. Used to love them when I was a kid.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

i remember having a wee down one when i was a nipper

Cornelius Atweasle · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:55 pm

The last time I took photos at the baths, I was arrested. :evil:

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:31 pm

Cornelius Atweasle wrote:

The last time I took photos at the baths, I was arrested. :evil:

I would of thought you learned your lesson the first time!

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:42 pm

Feedthecow wrote:

POK. I will apoligise if i'm wrong. I thought you were originally from Hartlepool, only recently moving darn saff to go to uni or something similar.

No, no Chatham born, Chatham and Hartlepool bred !

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:58 pm

Yubep wrote:

Is that a fence inbetween the big pool and the baby pool?

Yeah....wooden benches but it stopped all the 'biguns' running straight into the Little Pool!!!! :grin:

We should still have them or something similar!!!! confised

No need for photos of the Sports Hall though....it's exactly the same from when it opened about 1986!!!! confised

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:59 pm

Miss Tigga wrote:

I vaguely remember the elephant slides in the baby pool. Used to love them when I was a kid.

There was a couple of photos of them at work aswell!!!! confised

They got took out cos they were to steep for the depth of the water!!!! confised

And cos of people pissing down them....Mr.Yubep!!!! :evil:

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:02 pm

Poolie of Kent wrote:

Feedthecow wrote:

Hopefully i'm not being caught out here by POK superior wit, but surely he cant be from Hartlepool if he doesnt recognise Mill House

The fact that I live in Kent and have only seen it on Antiques Roadshow gives it away that I live in Gillingham.

You can hardly see the words swimming pool.

It looks so much more ornate than ours down here and it opened twenty-five years later.

Is that the one by the Mill House pub, must be, and near it there is a skateboard ramp and basketball courts liternally adjacent to the Mill House stand !!!

I've only managed to go to Hartlepool twice - Father of Poolie of Kent took us up for a couple of days in October Half Term 2001, we did all the tourist bits, Trincomalee, Marina, Seaton Carew. Went to my first ever Pools home game - the only time in the modern era we've lost 1-0 to Oxford United.

I went back up there for the Leeds home game on Boxing Day 2007.

That's it. I barely recognise the geography apart from it's the only ground I know of, the Vic, that has basketball courts so close to a football ground. Maybe when I went up there for the first time, i remember boys in Newcastle shirts playing basketball on the courts. Very strange.

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