swimming + public baths

[mirf]

Cambridge Road Baths Huddersfield. Mirf

[bykerlads]

Knew Cambridge Rd. baths well - learned to swim there, Wagon Wheels to eat after each session!

[brassbounder]

I learned to swim at Armley Baths, Leeds.

I remember the Wagon Wheels and cups of hot Bovril too!

I have an elderly friend I can ask about Holmfirth, will be seeing him tonight.

Jon

[Maggie J]

Woodside baths at Boothtown, Halifax. There was a swimming pool and public baths there.

[bodger]

I got my first cert. at the lido in Holmfirth, this was on the r/h side going up towards Cartworth Moor Rd. another one where we used to go was Scissett baths, one that as gone was in Penistone it was where the B 6462 meets the Huddersfield / Sheffield  road going towards Ingbirchworth, there is a reservoir on the left and the pool was made for the American soldiers who were stationed in the area, the water was straight from the res. with no heating it was even cold in summer but bl--dy freezing on any dull day. Do any Penistonians recall it ?

[brassbounder]

Hi Bodger, hope you're well!

The Holmfirth Lido was, according to my contacts, somewhere in  the Rotcher/Goose Green area, exactly as you describe, on the way to Cartworth.

Apparently there was another open-air pool at Park Head, that's on the A635 Holmfirth-Greenfield Road, so it must have been somewhere near where Compo's Cafe now is.

By coincidence, I've just had fish'n'chips from there for my tea 

Jon

[bykerlads]

Brassbounder-Yum! can't beat fish + chips from that cafe!
Does anyone know exactly where the lido at Parkhead was?
I guess that , like the one at New Fold/Goose Green, it was privately owned by well-off people but open for public use, too.
Bodger- interesting to hear about the pool for Yankie servicemen. Do you know where the camp was?
My mother and her sisters+ brother all learned to swim at the New Fold lido in the 1930/40's, they lived in New Fold, so it was literally on their door-step. It was owned by the people at the big house, the Ballentynes, I think.

[jsturner]

Don't forget there was a Lido in Manningham Park

[jksdelver]

Morley (nr Leeds) baths on Fountain Street