tommydazzle
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Nostalgia and sadness seeing these images.
What a brilliant vid. Thanks for posting.Nostalgia and sadness seeing these images.
The whole thing is a travesty but knocking down the ‘elephant building’ seems especially cruel/cold hearted.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.
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.
Yeah, that’s what I assumed. Thanks for confirming.Ooh, I can answer that. It's because he's a c**t.
The council seems totally inept at everything. Is there anything they do well?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.
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 buyOoh, I can answer that. It's because he's a c**t.
Yeah, I’m not sure I knew the slides were there either. We used to call that ‘the training pool’.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.
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.Getting the bus after school to go on the diving boards, my kids loved it up there to daring to jump then dive off 3rd board. We must have the worst run council in the country
I think that means you’re going to come into some money!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.
It was about 1994 they opened the splash pool, I remember going with friends from primary school and doing the same ritual. Fishy moors after and then a look around Shambles.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.
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.
The problem for such a long time has been the red tape around listed buildings. People have bought old run-down churches, pubs, school houses, etc. to do them up, only to be hit with so much red tape they can't actually do anything to them. So rather than let people revive old buildings, they've just gone to ruin. They either need to make it more accessible and easier to get planning permission to renovate, or they'll just continue to ruin to a point of knocking them down.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!
It’s a Labour council ?The council seems totally inept at everything. Is there anything they do well?
What's that building going up opposite the baths then? I'd just assumed it was student accommodation.The days of student accommodation blocks being built are probably long gone.
Yeah, that's where I meant. Tbf It's nearly opposite the baths! looked about 8 stories high when I last went by a couple of months ago.Isn't something going up on the lot between Pool Meadow and the CODE student accommodation.
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Yeah, that's where I meant. Tbf It's nearly opposite the baths! looked about 8 stories high when I last went by a couple of months ago.
My team deal with listed buildings. Red tape is a fallacy. Yes you need to design alterations carefully, its more expensive as need to apply for LB consent for a lot of works to fabric, but a good heritage architect will sort that out easily and painlessly. Not saying your folks D-T-R, but amount of people that buy listed buildings and have no idea what they are doing, then fcuk them up with shoddy architects and builders is considerable (unauthorised works can be criminal offence). People dont do research before buying listed buildings sadly, and the mess it created then wastes local government time and resources.The problem for such a long time has been the red tape around listed buildings. People have bought old run-down churches, pubs, school houses, etc. to do them up, only to be hit with so much red tape they can't actually do anything to them. So rather than let people revive old buildings, they've just gone to ruin. They either need to make it more accessible and easier to get planning permission to renovate, or they'll just continue to ruin to a point of knocking them down.
My in-laws bought an old thatched cottage in Worcestershire years ago to do up and live in. They needed permission just to paint the kitchen, and even then, they had a choice of 1 colour the council would agree to. It ended up taking them years to do up, and so many requests, refusals, and disputes.
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I think the point was largely the expense. Part of that is needing specialist architects and needing to meet with planning officers more often to make sure what is being done is acceptable. Then there's the fact that so many things require planning permission that don't in non-listed properties, which takes time and money. Then often requiring certain materials which are more expensive. Then running costs are a factor as you can't bring in more modern, efficient technologies (such as glazing etc.)My team deal with listed buildings. Red tape is a fallacy. Yes you need to design alterations carefully, its more expensive as need to apply for LB consent for a lot of works to fabric, but a good heritage architect will sort that out easily and painlessly. Not saying your folks D-T-R, but amount of people that buy listed buildings and have no idea what they are doing, then fcuk them up with shoddy architects and builders is considerable (unauthorised works can be criminal offence). People dont do research before buying listed buildings sadly, and the mess it created then wastes local government time and resources.
That said some Local Authority Corporate regeneration teams and housing, dont understand value of large scale urban listed buildings. The buildings become neglected and often want to demolish heritage for the sake of it as part of bigger plans and viability concerns. My starting point is always to try and blend the old with the new. Cov cathedral old and new is a good example.
Looking at the signage etc I'm not sure that's right, I think that they might have been part of the original design of the sports centre but got disused over time. Worth remembering in the 60s a lot of houses still didn't have a proper bathroom or inside toilet!There was another one of these a year or so ago on YouTube and they went down into the basement and the original changing rooms with actual baths from when it was first built were still there.
Found it
Wow, this is really sad to see. I was a basketball nut when we moved back to the UK in 1997, we used to watch the Coventry Crusaders there and I was a part of their training programme. Was the only place locally that had a waterslide, tooNostalgia and sadness seeing these images.
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