TOMO 26,948 Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Daniel cain said: We used to go swimming in junior school from about 10 onwards..the high school I went to had an indoor pool. exactly same mate... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 30,531 Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 Schools with swimming pools .....posh fuckers,our school barely had enough desks to go around. My ol woman always cracks me up talking about her canoeing lessons in the school lake behind the school football pitches next to the school swimming pool....how the other half live ! 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
big sid 1,127 Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 very few schools in scotland had pools, sister was a head teacher and her hubby a pe/english teacher says you must be posh. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 47,965 Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 Greenwhich baths on the ILEA bus with a lifeguard that had a fag permanently hanging from her lip !……I think it was the only bath some kids got every week ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bosun11 537 Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 We had a school pool in senior school. Our school was built in 1965 and trying to be all modern they built a decent pool for the school just over the road. Though Anfield Comprehensive, a 1500 pupil all, boys school in inner city Liverpool in the 70's, was hardly what you'd call posh, the FB page dedicated to it is called 'I Survived Anny Comp' As a swimmer, we had training every morning and lunch times and i'd do that as well as my club training Monday & Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons. Just on top of that was training for the City of Liverpool on Saturday mornings and also Wednesday evenings but i didn't go to many of them. Wednesdays were too much... Though my fave swimming was going with my mates to Noggsy baths on a Sunday morning, just for fun. My daughter also swims for a club and the City team BUT although there is a new, 5 year old, pool right over the road, her school simply is not interested in swimming as part of their PE programme and they don't use it... Her junior school were also uninterested in swimming BUT as said before, they did one term per year. Ironically, my daughter and 6 others in her year all swam for clubs. When the school entered the North Liverpool Junior School Gala for the first time, in March 2020, the school smashed it, taking every major trophy and the Championship as a whole. The look on the face of the normally uninterested Head Mistress, as she skipped out the building cradleing 4 huge trophys, was a sight to behold. And i'm betting swimming got a huge boost in funding at that school from then on... Swimming is so important and taught right, kids love it... It's health, it's safety, it's fun. It makes every holiday better, it makes any deep water safer, for the rest of their lives.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 30,531 Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) Leyton Baths near us actually doubled up as a boxing venue believe it or not....the ol fella boxed their loads of times the best seats in the house was the 10 metre diving board what a terrible place that was ....regards school ours was literally like a prison block every door to the outside was locked to stop you running away we had a north and south playground with barbed wire round the walls...only through force of habit we turned up in the mornings ! Edited to add....cant like the above post by Bosun for some reason but wanted to acknowledge it in some way....smashing post that squire. Edited August 10, 2021 by gnasher16 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
downsouth 7,571 Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 2 hours ago, gnasher16 said: Schools with swimming pools .....posh fuckers,our school barely had enough desks to go around. My ol woman always cracks me up talking about her canoeing lessons in the school lake behind the school football pitches next to the school swimming pool....how the other half live ! Suppose your school didn't wanna bother wasting funds on a load of sruffy old thicko's 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 30,531 Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 10 minutes ago, downsouth said: Suppose your school didn't wanna bother wasting funds on a load of sruffy old thicko's I'll have you know we had some very well known chaps come out of our school.......fair enough most of them are in prison now but thats not the point 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
big sid 1,127 Posted August 11, 2021 Report Share Posted August 11, 2021 (edited) its on tour the now if you want to see it katchum, wrote by tony roper rab c nisbet pal.peter mullen was in the original most under rated actor. Edited August 11, 2021 by big sid Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THE STIFFMEISTER 16,349 Posted August 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2021 Mate , I’m all for that but the reality is people spend a lot of time f***ing around with stuff like that and until it’s actually needed it gets thrashed . a poor doo but signed non the less 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THE STIFFMEISTER 16,349 Posted May 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2023 Went swimming last night with the kids in a local pool , hardly anyone in , was lovely to be in the water trolling around with the kids , looking for SpongeBob , see how long you can hold your breath for , down the chutes , nonsense and chilled . came home to read the tragic posts on the Facebook accounts in our home town that a 15 year old lad had went into the river and was missing . we’ve followed the story all day and read the devastating news that he’d sadly been found passed. there’s no blame with things like that , how can they be ? But I started this thread with the tale of how over the years , this river claims young lives , it’s clockwork in its regularity , it’s such a dangerous stretch as it floods ( as seen in the floods that occur in Carlisle ) with it being the main tributary for the upper Cumbria fells to the sea . There’s countless arterial rivers coming off the Eden and that rain swells its flow . Only two weeks ago I was up there with the boy , throwing sticks for the dog and you could see kids laying on the sand stone slabs and stoned areas . The water was like ice still. absolutely heart breaking news being delivered to a family on a day like this . please , for god sakes , stress the importance of not going into rivers to your teens . It’s just genuinely not worth it 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Francie, 2,423 Posted May 27, 2023 Report Share Posted May 27, 2023 3 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said: Went swimming last night with the kids in a local pool , hardly anyone in , was lovely to be in the water trolling around with the kids , looking for SpongeBob , see how long you can hold your breath for , down the chutes , nonsense and chilled . came home to read the tragic posts on the Facebook accounts in our home town that a 15 year old lad had went into the river and was missing . we’ve followed the story all day and read the devastating news that he’d sadly been found passed. there’s no blame with things like that , how can they be ? But I started this thread with the tale of how over the years , this river claims young lives , it’s clockwork in its regularity , it’s such a dangerous stretch as it floods ( as seen in the floods that occur in Carlisle ) with it being the main tributary for the upper Cumbria fells to the sea . There’s countless arterial rivers coming off the Eden and that rain swells its flow . Only two weeks ago I was up there with the boy , throwing sticks for the dog and you could see kids laying on the sand stone slabs and stoned areas . The water was like ice still. absolutely heart breaking news being delivered to a family on a day like this . please , for god sakes , stress the importance of not going into rivers to your teens . It’s just genuinely not worth it Terrible news for the family stiff rip Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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