Found this old photo from the Dundee Swimming Pool, was taken when the kids were young and we were there for a visit. This was the adult flume ride and muggins here was enjoying the slow ones and then climbed up the long ladder to try this one........totally forgetting there was a 25 foot drop when you shot out the end. I remember the awful fright of falling helplessly through the air at top speed lol. Then landing in a very very deep pool, most undignified lol thank heavens there were no mobile phones in those days.📱😂😂😂😂
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Probably no health and safety either from the look of that. Landing on somebody still in that pool would be no fun at all for either party.
If I remember correctly there was a lifeguard at the top of the flume tunnel and you didn't get to go down until the person in front was getting out of the pool..
It was the mid 80s.
Probably why it went then. Too expensive. The 10m board was taken out of use at the main pool here years back.
That looks scary !
I learnt in the Central baths in Dundee. It was at the Docks, very basic, before the pool Raven went to was built.. A5F86F00-0F4E-49EB-B48F-6076AABC79DD.jpeg
I have no idea why the picture appeared twice!
I never learned :grin:
My mother couldn't swim, she was determined I would learn.
I'm another non-swimmer
Never too late..... [2020]
at 85 the urge doesn't exist.
I learned to swim at a young age..
We had Earlswood Lakes .. There were two big lakes.. The larger for boats..
The smaller for people to use.. There was a (little) diving board and a manmade platform .. We kids swam and paddled there while (some)parents sat on the grass ... Coach trips came down from London..
It wouldn't be allowed now.. Health and Safety.. Just imagine what was in that water.. !!!
well, as long it wasn't piranha!
My dad as a boy, taught himself to swim in the Thames at Windsor, he and his mates used to climb up onto the iron arched railway bridge and dive in. When I was a child I often went in the Thames with my dad, don't know if people still do these days, "elf and safety" and all that.
Another world back then.. Everything was simpler..
It was before folk started suing organisations for injuries sustained...
Children's playgrounds these days look distinctly tame compared to those of my youth.
Anybody remember these. One of my favourites. Probably helped to improve the gene pool.
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We had one of those roundabouts in the background too. All on proper tarmac not that wimpy rubberised stuff they have now.
Those were the days when each knee took it in turns to have a large scab ready to pick.
We hung on for dear life.. The boys would try desperately hard to throw us off..
We knew a boy liked us if he spun us too fast on the roundabout..
February 02, 2023, 11:20:01 AM
Who's watching the baby in the pram.. !!!
I reckon that's the mum looking at the "Jazzer". Probably another sprog on it. What were they called in your parts? I doubt it was the same.
It was called "The Piler" in these parts. Had to watch where you sat too, or your head could clonk off the top bar.
We had a round-a-bout.. with just bars to hold on to.. We had the the big rocker.. where people almost sat on top of one another just like the picture.. We stood up and just hung on.. No soft landing..
Never heard of the word 'Jazzer'..
We have never used the word 'Sprog' in these parts either..
We have never used the word 'Sprog' in these parts either..
Probably too posh :grin:
Quote from: Raven on February 02, 2023, 12:47:21 PMIt was called "The Piler" in these parts. Had to watch where you sat too, or your head could clonk off the top bar.
That sounds about right! It would be piled up with bairns!
I remember those swings too, can't remember what we called it though.
I was a bit of a wimp as I'd wait for the ' big boys' to clear off before I'd have a go. :grin: