1958 slides found

[Richard]

I have just come across some old slides from 1958 which my dad took of the beauty contest at the old swimming pool.
One of them has Alma Cogan in it and there are several others of the contestants and I think the Mayor at the time.
I will be getting them scanned and will upload some when i eventually get them back. There are also slides of the illuminations, and some of me in the boating pool at Happy Mount Park!
The slides I will then donate to the Lancashire Records Office for historical posterity.

My gran used to live in Bare and I remember many a happy holiday with her,   the park and crabbing in the tidal pool on the beach near Bare.   I visited last June 08 and was saddened to find the Park boating pool gone, and everything looks so much smaller!!!   (Im now 57)   so much else gone too, incl the beach pool.   So many memories!

Does anyone know of any photos of the outside of the swimming pool building?

[morecambe]

Hi Richard - Welcome to the forum!

I don't have any pics of the pool building but I also feel Morecambe shrinks when I visit the old places I used to go to. I am 6'4'' though... such fond memories but things have changed a lot. Happy Mount Park, Bubbles, Frontierland... even the future of The Dome is uncertain.

There have also been the changes to the Midland Hotel and Morecambe Train Station and now there's the new-ish retail area behind Morrisons and The Superbowl.

Scary how fast things change!

Hopefully others can find some pics outside the pool building.

Take care,

Matt

[mpprh]

Hi

Outside pic of the Super Swimming Stadium : http://mgs1970.netfirms.com/photo_page7.htm

I am also 57. When I was 12ish an annual season ticket for the S.S.S. cost 10 shillings. We used to leave school at break time (say 10.30) and cycle to the pool on the first day of the season to try and get the season ticket with the lowest number.  I got 5 one year, but someone's mother worked in the office, and I think he raffled the lower numbers !

It was also a tradition to swim a breadth on the first day they were open (1 week before Easter ?). I remember seeing 47F (8C) one year.

Even in summer, 67F was common, and 73F (23C) was seen as tropical. These days, I'm not too happy swimming when it is under 26C. Living here, most pools are around 30C in summer.


Peter