tommydazzle
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Nostalgia and sadness seeing these images.
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Terry_dactyl
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What a brilliant vid. Thanks for posting.
I spent a ridiculous amount of time there as I used to swim for Cov…7-8 sessions a week. It’s amazing how many memories that brought back for me!
The old man (and me when I was old enough) used to play 5 aside in there on a Sunday morning…I used to use it as a warm up game before my Sunday League fixture!
Sometimes thered be people from the eclipse under the flyover, as we’d be getting in. Absolutely off their faces. Looked like great fun to 12/13 year old me!
chiefdave
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Should never have been left to run down to the point it did. Then the old 'we can't afford to repair it' before spending far more than the cost of repairs on the 'replacement' that didn't have anywhere near the same level of facilities.
Remember someone ran the numbers at the time and the idea that it was too expensive to keep open was nonsense when you factored in the cost of both building a replacement and making use of the site.
Of course we've now reached the inevitable point where despite all the promises from the council and the listed status it now seems its going to be knocked down for redevelopment.
Remember someone ran the numbers at the time and the idea that it was too expensive to keep open was nonsense when you factored in the cost of both building a replacement and making use of the site.
Of course we've now reached the inevitable point where despite all the promises from the council and the listed status it now seems its going to be knocked down for redevelopment.
Terry_dactyl
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The whole thing is a travesty but knocking down the ‘elephant building’ seems especially cruel/cold hearted.
What is it with Maton and being the figurehead for the council wanting to tear down/destroy Coventry’s institutions.
duffer
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Ooh, I can answer that. It's because he's a c**t.
Terry_dactyl
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Yeah, that’s what I assumed. Thanks for confirming.
Covkid1968#
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Got all sorts of memories from good to stupid. Went off the 4th board once and once only (in later life I would tell people it was the 5th..but it wasn't).....perforated an ear drum!!! Also - on another time, I got made to stand outside in my speedo's as a very young lad due to an IRA bomb scare. I'm still not sure how I survived growing up in the 70's.
Captain Dart
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The council seems totally inept at everything. Is there anything they do well?
chiefdave
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Blocked me on twitter when I (politely I should add) asked how his suggestion for a new site for our stadium would work when they were already building houses on the site he said the club should buy
RegTheDonk
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Remember on the news when it was going to be shut down. Good video but obviously a sad subject.
When did they put the big slides in the smaller pool? Not seen them before (though last time I was there was probalby late 70s when I still lived in Cov). I've visited family in Radford and taken the grandkids to the "Wave" but seems a bit daft that was built instead of re-vamping and utilising the old place.
When did they put the big slides in the smaller pool? Not seen them before (though last time I was there was probalby late 70s when I still lived in Cov). I've visited family in Radford and taken the grandkids to the "Wave" but seems a bit daft that was built instead of re-vamping and utilising the old place.
Terry_dactyl
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Yeah, I’m not sure I knew the slides were there either. We used to call that ‘the training pool’.
I forgot just how massive it all was. It was pretty eerie in parts at the best of times, let alone it’s been abandoned!
Im not sure I ever saw the bowling green bit. It looked like it was still in good nick.
It’s such a shame that it was allowed to descend into ruin.
Marty
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I used to play up there in the 5 a side on Friday and Sunday evenings. Was a decent league too, half decent standard and no knob heads wanting to fight every 5 mins.
I think they redone the smaller of the pools with the slides around 2000. It had a lazy river type thing going on with it too down one side of the pool. A few of us from school used to go up there Saturday mornings and get a fishy moors after.
Such a shame they've left it to get like this and I bet it costs us an absolute fortune to keep running too, even in this state.
I think they redone the smaller of the pools with the slides around 2000. It had a lazy river type thing going on with it too down one side of the pool. A few of us from school used to go up there Saturday mornings and get a fishy moors after.
Such a shame they've left it to get like this and I bet it costs us an absolute fortune to keep running too, even in this state.
Gynnsthetonic
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Myself getting the bus after school to go on the diving boards, my kids also loved it up there too daring to jump then dive off 3rd board. We must have the worst run council in the country
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Gynnsthetonic
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Terry_dactyl
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Probably only average. There was a story on wales online (as terrible as the Cov Tel site) a year or so ago, showing all the buildings that Cardiff council have allowed to be knocked down over the years. Pretty shameful.
Still, on the plus side, I imagine someone makes lot of money out of it all. Yay!
no_loyalty
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Watched the video a few days ago, very sad to see as it brought back memories from the summer school holidays in the late eighties and early nineties. I spent whole days there and especially loved the diving boards, dived off all of them. No doubt when they eventually knock it down it will be turned into more student accommodation. I agree that Maton is a complete c**t and has done nothing but harm to this great city.
Briles
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Loved going there as a kid with my brother and the old man. He'd sit in the jacuzzi whilst we sneaked round behind him and splashed him with cold water. The water slide digging into your back where it wasnt joined properly. Following the footsteps for jungle junction. Brings it all back. Ill be sure to save the video.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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With that level of water I might finally be able to pick up that brick from the bottom in my jim-jams!
This has also brought to mind a weird dream I used to have. Basically I'd be on the diving boards and look down and there'd be a massive great white shark swimming around in the diving pool area. It never went into the main pool bit with people swimming and kids splashing around - just ominously circling the depths of the diving pool area.
This has also brought to mind a weird dream I used to have. Basically I'd be on the diving boards and look down and there'd be a massive great white shark swimming around in the diving pool area. It never went into the main pool bit with people swimming and kids splashing around - just ominously circling the depths of the diving pool area.