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Wallasey - New Brighton Bathing Pool 1934 to 1991
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2024
- How many of you out there remember these open air baths and the scorching summers spent there. Feel free to comment or send your own videos or pics
Hello from St Louis Mo USA , i lived Liverpool till about 12 yo ..I remember my Dad jumping off the top level of the diving board...He passed a few years ago.. Still MY HERO !
Craig
I won Miss New Brighton STARLETT here in 1973!!! aged 5!! (now 42!)
It was the kiddie version of the ladies contest!!
Such fond memories of the freezing cold pool though
So very sad this pool was demolished after that storm. It was a beautiful piece of art-deco architecture!!
Aww lovely I did too been trying g to find any pictures from echo of starlettes? Think I won in 71/2
im only 19 and lived in wallasey most of my life, but i absolutley love you video collection, and recognising locations and changes. good stuff :)
i was really young when this closed down but i remember swimming in it, and it was bloody cold! i think i was about 7? amazing vid, look at the weather! you dont get summers in new brighton like that now! ha ha. great vid!
Lovely to see. Wish they'd repaired it instead of pulling it down. Who needs ANOTHER supermarket??
Love this video as it helped me visualise a place my father and uncles speak of. they took part in the opening ceremony as swimmers and high divers. They must have been pretty good at it I imagine - Len, Phil and Cliff Morris - anyone remember them at all? Would love to see more open air baths, high boards and springboards etc but its all water slides and wave machines these days - pity.
Watching June 2022
Thar diving board scared the crap out of me, I first saw it when I was two!
difficult to believe that such a vibrant place was allowed to disappear
superb sights of the old days...sadly missed views of new brighton
Great times i had there in my youth!!
used to go there in the mid 70's early 80's as a kid the most scariest dive board id seen
@bigvis65 and eddy grant also ,was great remeber tickets where free aswell
*Chuckles*
I totally agree I must have been about 5 and amy memories are jumping out just as fast as I jumped in. Shocked with Frostbite.
Never went back in it again, stayed in the fountain.
Those who were in power on Wirral Borough Council at the time and let these baths disapear are an absoloute disgrace.
These baths were an asset to our townand should have repaired but our short-sighted council probably could not wait to pull them down and the storm damage was the perfecr excuse.
They could have found the funding from somewhere fro the repairs if they wanted to.
One of the cubicle doors had "cheese on' 🧀 written on the back of it.
I love this music. From the old Miss Marple films?
4:50 from Paddington I believe it's called.
@wirralpainter we have a similar council in s-o-t staffs...some people only in for themselves...sad...my dad said new brighton was a great place to go...sure paul mccartney remembers it well too...
@scabycat Thanks yeah it's great, realy fits the film.
@bigvis65 Its the " Miss Marple" theme tune composed by Ron Goodwin and played by his orchestra.- Good isn't it?
I love this music. Wasn't it on the old Miss Marple films?
i seem to remember that only a single section of the wall was damaged accounting for less than 1% of the total structure.
WBC you are a fucking disgrace, i have many happy childhood memories of new brighton, thousans of local happy people walking, using the pool and the indoor funfair, going to all the arcades. great atmosphere great times.
who ever made that decision, congrats you have drove a knife through the wirral and its people.
New Brightons pool loss was WBC's most shameful act of short sighted descration. It ripped the last of New Brightons soul out and paved the way for a town full of narrow minded NIMBY'S that still inhabit the place tody. Mind if you take off the rose tinted specs for a while...the pool was a bit minty towards the end wasnt it???!!! anybody any memories of New Ferry baths??? another Council shame..
£250,000 to repair it that was the figure not £2 million as wirral borough council said at the time
A quality film Whats the tune?
I last went here when I was 6 and spent most of the time on top of the fountain. I was gutted after the storm and they knocked it down. Wasnt that much damage and Im sure the building was insured. I know there are plans to build a new one but wonder how long tha will take. People in New Brighton seem to like the way it is and keep opposing the plans. PEOPLE OF NEW BRIGHTON, SHUT UP AND LET US HAVE A REGENERATION
the pool is being restored
Anyone know were I can get a copy of this as my mum is on it.
google youtube downloader, there are websites you enter a youtube URL and it allows you to download the video
@wirralpainter. Wake up!! Easy Jet to Salou for £30!! Even with globel warming we would be to cold or too snobish to go to New Brighton Baths ( or Salou!! ) Times have changed. In the 90s maybe they were too quick to right- off the baths but by now it would be history!!
cold n salty