Longley park open air baths!!

[jimbo2107]

I remember the Mini in the pool very well, I was on duty in Longley ambulance station that night.

[Totti11]

I remember a girl who'd just coloured her hair jumping in and turning the water orange!!!

 

I also remember queueing to get in, you seemed to be there for hours but we never complained.

[bri bloomer]

hiya Janner you will be a few years older i went to the youth club 1955 ,,to 1957 but my brother George would be there then ,and the Naylors that lived on Lindsay Ave,where did you live ,i lived on Elm lane ,i can recall lots of names from around Lindsay ,masters ,and deerlands

[Tulipsareme]

My husband used to jump over the fence aswell. suprised it wasnt as busy at night as it was through the day.

[Janner]

hiya Janner you will be a few years older i went to the youth club 1955 ,,to 1957 but my brother George would be there then ,and the Naylors that lived on Lindsay Ave,where did you live ,i lived on Elm lane ,i can recall lots of names from around Lindsay ,masters ,and deerlands

 

I lived on Masters Rd, I had a younger brother called Tony. Our surname is Miller, we lived at 45. My girl friend then was called Elsie Watson , she lived opposite the Lindsey Rd shops. It was a fatastic place to live in those days.

[bri bloomer]

hiya Janner i think your brother is about my time ,i think we were at school together ,names of masters Rd,Miltons Brian and Charlie ,Wittles Eddie ,Fowlers,Ledwoods,Hinchcliffe of the Cresent ,David Bailey,Eddy goldthorpe.i lived on Elm lane ,

[Janner]

bri bloomer, the names ring a bell but from such a long time ago. My brother died when he was 56 but I'm still around at 80. I often wondered what happened to the girls I knew, Elsie Watson & June Cromwell, odd that, remember the girls so well but a bit dusty with the boys.

[sheffsueme]

This is a photo of my Granddad (who worked at Longley park) in front of the baths. I'm not sure what year it was taken, either late sixties or seventies maybe.

 

Can anyone spot themselves?!

 

http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x7/beanpods/?action=view&current=No_Writing_Park.jpg

 

 

Thanks for sharing the photo, lovely photo of your Grandad.

My friends and I used to go there every summer in the 50s,

The water was always perishing cold and it took your breath away.

The bottom of the pool was rough and gritty. A few years ago I bought

a postcard of the pool, the photograph was probably taken one summer

in the late 50s. I don't know where it is now, but if/when I find it I will

post it. I know there is a blonde suntanned adonis on it who was a regular customer there in the front of the photograph, and a couple of girls I knew

also on the photo.

[ronn88]

went to longley baths between 1946 and 1950. lived on southey green road good memories,

[sheffsueme]

Thanks for sharing the photo, lovely photo of your Grandad.

My friends and I used to go there every summer in the 50s,

The water was always perishing cold and it took your breath away.

The bottom of the pool was rough and gritty. A few years ago I bought

a postcard of the pool, the photograph was probably taken one summer

in the late 50s. I don't know where it is now, but if/when I find it I will

post it. I know there is a blonde suntanned adonis on it who was a regular customer there in the front of the photograph, and a couple of girls I knew

also on the photo.

 

 

I forgot to mention we were neighbours of Brian B, his younger

sister was one of my best friends. All of the kids played outside all

day when we weren't in school, the park was our front yard.

We walked for miles every day, and walked to and from the fair

at Ecclesfield twice a day when it was there. We didn't have the

bus fare, and taxis didn't exist in our world.

 

It was a lovely area to live and to go to school in, in those days.