Before Mobiles.

[Raven]

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.📱😂😂😂😂

[klondike]

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.

[Raven]

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.

[klondike]

Probably why it went then. Too expensive. The 10m board was taken out of use at the main pool here years back.

[Alex]

That looks scary !

[GrannyMac]

I learnt in the Central baths in Dundee. It was at the Docks, very basic, before the pool Raven went to was built..  You cannot view this attachment.


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[Alex]

I never learned 

[GrannyMac]

My mother couldn't swim, she was determined I would learn. 

[Michael Rolls]

I'm another non-swimmer

[GrannyMac]

Never too late.....    

[Michael Rolls]

at 85 the urge doesn't exist.

[Scrumpy]

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.. !!! 

[Michael Rolls]

well, as long it wasn't piranha!

[Jacqueline]

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. 

[Scrumpy]

Another world back then.. Everything was simpler..