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Fabulous pics! Bert, any dates on those?

1965 ish

That takes me back! I co-owned an Enterprise dinghy for a couple of years or so, with my father and we sailed her from that very slip... ...can't remember the E-number now, though!

I spent many a long happy day swimming off that slipway. It never rained back in those schoolboy days!

Anyone remember the huge floating ball?

I never saw it but I know my Mother did - apparently it was taken away after some people (more than one I think but not sure how many?) had drowned - apparently, they got stuck underneath it, somehow...?

I remember 1976, really hot summer and diving in the deep end of Derby pool then getting a mouthful of ladybirds when I came up lol......:)

I remember most years, some days there were so many dead flies floating in the pool, that it was hard to find a clear spot to dive in or get out...!! Yuckiest thing about the Derby, really, apart from the water being so damn cold of course!

Cracked concrete, hot from the sun, freezing cold water and an incessant replaying of "Unchained Melody" (must have been the Inkspots). That was in the early to mid 1950's.

I think it was Jimmy Young's version that was played.I belive it reached number 1 in the charts! Strange,you could understand the words,and there was actually a tune.
Must be getting old!!!!

Thank you marty99fred and others for taking the time to respond,i very much appreciate the pics and the story behind the pool, the pics are so clear, thank you all

hello again, does anyone know when the pool closed? thanks sunnyside

hi greasby lad, thanks for info on talk about pools , one thing it is over 12months too late haha