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    Sea Bathing Lake 1966
     

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    No..... Pedoja and I are NOT amongst these bathing beauties!
     

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    Sea Bathing Lake

    Sea Bathing Lake



    I may be old but I ain't stupid..!!!
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    I always remember the Sea Bathing lake as a great day out, and have many happy memories of time spent there with my family and friends. It is a shame that these type of venues are considered old fashioned, and now we have to have crazy slides and other water features.

    peterw

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    Peter 52,
    The sea Bathing Lake was one of the best Attractions Southport had.

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    It sure was Nell..... and I think that if Southport still had it today, it would still be as packed as it was years ago.

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    I may be old but I ain't stupid..!!!
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    My Aunt Hilda and her friend Joan at the Sea Bathing Lake

    I may be old but I ain't stupid..!!!
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    Anyone remember when "Its a Knockout" was broadcast from the open air baths?

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    Yes
    I may be old but I ain't stupid..!!!
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    Happy Days

    My memories of summer holidays are begging for pop bottles to take back so we could scrape enough money together for bus fare and entrance to the baths (bunked in a few times but it wasn't easy). Armed with a pile of jam butties(only jam, no butter) we would spend a good 8 hours in there for the pricely sum of 6 old pence. That was value. I remeber looking longingly at all the people in the cafe having meals, completely beyond my budget but we had some wonderful times , Oh happy days, I am sounding like an old lady and I am still only 18 in my head

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    Pop Bottles

    MissE,

    I used to collect pop bottles on Ainsdale Beach

    Potted Meat butties I used to take to the Open Air,yes we didnt have much,but we knew how to enjoy ourselves on what little we
    had

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    Potted meat

    Potted meat butties eh Nell, you were a posh one, I bet you had margarine under yer potted meat as well.

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    I didnt like jam butties MissE,but I did have butter under my beef
    paste butties,my Mum and Dad made sure we had butter and plenty of milk to drink,any other drink would have to be good old Corporation Pop

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    Cool My memories of "The Pool"

    In the summer of 1961 or 62 my mum worked in the ladies changing room at the Sea Bathing Lake (with the late Molly Holmes from Canning Rd and a Mrs Baxter from Waterloo). I was allowed in free and had to go down there every night after school to be given my tea. I also had to spend every day of the summer holidays there (sheer hell !!). I have wonderful memories of being the only person in the water on rainy days (rain didn't make the water any colder !!). Luckily I had two other kids to play with - Molly's son Phillip and Mrs Baxter's daughter Anne, so was never ever bored.

    It was exactly 110 yards in length from the high diving boards by the mens changing rooms to the diving boards at the ladies end - so 16 lengths made one mile. I seem to remember it being 16 feet deep at the mens end and 8 feet deep at the other - the stretch away from the diving boards being 6 feet deep. I was told that it was a quarter mile in circumference. The water was always very cold but once you were in you could relax and enjoy the day.

    I remember the manager's name was Mr Henderson and he seemed to manage the place without ever leaving the cash office at the front entrance. He certainly didn't believe in management by walking about !

    Mum was forever moaning about how *****y all the bathing beauties were to each other and the staff behind the scenes. I seem to remember that the contest took place every Wednesday and was judged by a celebrity. For some strange reason the only celebrity I can remember was Ivor Emmanuel who was a Welsh singer who appeared on TV fairly often, though there must have been bigger names than him judging over the course of that summer. The results were published in Thursday's local paper (the Southport Journal or Southport Guardian ? - one came out on Tuesday as well I think).

    It was not a particularly good summer weather wise - gales blew down part of Billy Smart's circus tent on Princes Park and some elephants stampeded in panic and made the national press.

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