“Hi Justine, Sue, Clive
If I get a chance I will elaborate on this post, as it is I am very busy this morning so may not get time.
News, Local history and Thanet issues from Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate see www.michaelsbookshop.com I publish over 200 books about the history of this area click here to look at them.
Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.
just imagine if the old open air swimming pool was still here, although a bit chilly at the moment it would be such a great asset during the spring and summer months.
ReplyDeleteNot so much a step forward but a giant leap backwards when you think of what is there now, how can educated, forward thinking adults get it so terribly wrong time after time,or maybe the question should be why do we allow them to get it wrong time after time....
Ah well Steve, with the pool the council put it about for years that it had been damaged by a bomb in the war, but I gather what really happened was they had some sort of reorganisation and transfused its management from the maintenance department to the leisure department – tricky thing as ferro cast pool with the waves beating against it, the weight of the water inside protects it from the impacts of the waves – so there was a list of dos and donts that went with the pool, one of which was, under no circumstances empty it. You guessed.
ReplyDeleteSteveP,
ReplyDeleteAs you say, we allow them to get away with it.
The Marina swimming pool closed in 1974.Oh such happy memories.Why did we let it close?
ReplyDeleteCome on TDC built the swimming pool outside with flumes,wave machines,look at Butlins the swimming pool is the main entertainment during the day and they make a lot of money.
They will come if you build it!
A straw poll would be interesting to see just how many visitors to all of the Thanet Blog sites would like to see a return of the open air pool and other associated attractions.
ReplyDeleteOne would guess there would be a high majority in favour...... Thoughts ????
SteveP
TDC succeeded where the Luftwaffe failed. TDC destroyed the Marina Pool using their weapon of mass destruction that goes by the codename of incompetence.
ReplyDeleteThe Marina Pool was bombed during the war. My parents often talked about it.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see the pools returned.
ReplyDelete