Brixton pool to shut for six weeks
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wiskey said:its bad that it could plausibly have been 2002 though and i would have accepted it
I wanted to say 'Lambeth Council Strike Again'
but Peckham is in the usually uncontroversial Southwark .... 
lang rabbie
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aurora green said:I was in Peckham soft play place this morning, from where you can see right into the pool area. No workman in there or anything, so I asks what's going on, and am told that the contractors work at night so there's no noise...
And that the pool is due to re-open early 2002. Wtf could possibly be taking so long?
No the night working is so they don't have to close the rest of the sports facilities...
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Gramsci
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Used the pool last Monday.Cant say it looke any different.Whilst it was closed I used the Oasis on the corner of Endell st and Shaftesbury Ave in the Covent Garden area.Its has 2 pools.One outside which is heated in winter and one inside with big windows so its feels like its outside.The pools arent as big as Brixton recs but i like it there.They have a sundeck and poolside coffee bar.Also the showers,unlike Brixton,are good.
gaijingirl
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I went to the rec this morning. Same as always. One customer was trying to find out from the staff about the future of the rec.. but to no avail.
The showers are a bit rubbish, but overall it's ok, if a bit overheated!
I've always fancied trying Oasis, but I always thought the outside pool would be very crowded?
The showers are a bit rubbish, but overall it's ok, if a bit overheated!
I've always fancied trying Oasis, but I always thought the outside pool would be very crowded?
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Try suggesting that any of Lambeth's pools are too warm for serious lap-swimmers and you'll be torn limb-from-limb by Lambeth Pensioners Action Group - who always demand that the water is kept at tropical temperatures for their arthritic joints.gaijingirl said:
gaijingirl
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lang rabbie said:
better not say anything then.. that sounds a bit scary.. I do come out of there very sweaty though.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
I'm sure the technology of pool heating systems would allow them to have alternate warm water and cool water days - if they were announced in the swim programme that might keep both sets of swimmers happier.
{I should ask my dad, an old school engineer, how long it would take to raise the temperature by a couple of degrees. He should be able to calculate this sort of thing in his head in imperial units.}
{I should ask my dad, an old school engineer, how long it would take to raise the temperature by a couple of degrees. He should be able to calculate this sort of thing in his head in imperial units.}
RushcroftRoader
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OpalFruit said:
Small children. Militant pensioners. In a small pool. Together.
Somebody call 999 quick.
Ms Ordinary
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OpalFruit said:
The small pool is indeed as warm as a bath
- it sometimes has steam rising off it 
Its lovely for grown ups who are stuck there for hours while toddlers splash around.
It also tastes completely different to the main pool
(less salty & chlorine-y)
Tricky Skills
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I hit Brixton Rec at 4pm this afternoon - all THREE lanes to myself! Lovely...
gaijingirl
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I now get to use the ULU pool... which is very lovely indeed and quiet. The only thing is I've gone from being one of the faster swimmers to being one of the slower... there are some serious swimmers in there...
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
As I was stuck at home with 'flu, I heard the Deputy Head of Stockwell Park High School on Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday morning about the problems they had in getting the Government to agree to a rebuild which kept the school's swimming pool.
BBC Listen Again link - it is at the end at 0845
Which has belatedly led me to realise (now that my temperature is below 100):
WTF couldn't Lambeth and the school have co-operated to open the pool to the public while the Rec's pool was closed
Or are the current changing facilties so grotty as to be unusable
BBC Listen Again link - it is at the end at 0845
Which has belatedly led me to realise (now that my temperature is below 100):
WTF couldn't Lambeth and the school have co-operated to open the pool to the public while the Rec's pool was closed
Or are the current changing facilties so grotty as to be unusable
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