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Does anyone remember new ferry swimming baths ?

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CLICKY

Used to bunk in water was freezing !

Where was it abouts?

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shorefields near new ferry shore, the other end of the road from where the great eastern pub was before it was demolished.

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Yes it was there Sue the great eastern pub shame they pulled it down

oh yeah, i remember the baths! such a shame they pulled it down and built the Wimpy estate on the site, we used to bunk in,sometimes we paid!!to me it always felt as tho you were stepping into another world once you you got through that turnstyle, i can still hear that turnstyle as you paid and went through! aaahhh the memories! it was great, there was a swimming instructer there by the name of Mr Chaukley does anyone remember him?

I remember it. We used to bunk in through the hedge and spend all day there. Packed off by our mums with jam butties and a drink and no money to get in. There was a baby pool which was shallow enough to walk right acroos, it was only up to your knees. The middle pool (the tip-toe pool, cos i had to tip-toe to keep my head above the water) and then a swimmers only pool.... for swimmers not splashers. There was a slide and diving boards, 3 of them i think. Huge and freezing cold changing rooms. Dont ever remember seeing a lifeguard. But the water, my god, it could only have been colder if they had an iceberg floating in it. But i lived to tell the tale.

Aaaahhh yes chalky white we used to call him. I actually passed my first certificate with him by walking along the bottom of the centre pool.
No wonder the place shut down, no one seemed to pay. i had a yearly pass and i'd still bunk in, either through the fence in the park or over the hospital wall!

didnt the slide have a pipe thing at the top spraying water down the slide to make it slippy or am i remebering somewhere else.and yes it was bloody cold.

I remember them being there yes but never went. I do however remember going to Port Sunlight Baths. Were the summers warmer back then or did we just think they were?