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A neighbour asked me a question last night while we were chatting about where she could find out a answer to a question that is puzzling members of her family and i said i knew the right place to find the answer...2 members of the family seem to remember visiting Armley Baths to see a show that involved live dolphins !!! They seem to think that it was in the 70's ..thats the 1970's any one any info on it Thanks

If it wasn't in the 1950's I know nowt about it. LOL. Just swimming and Dancing then.

Armley baths was always the one we'd go to, I don't remember the dolphins. Not saying it didn't happen, but I don't know anyone who remembers it.

That's where we used to go, too. Learnt to swim by being thrown in the deep-end!I've asked around about the dolphins without luck, also. I can't imagine how they got them there. Having swum with them in Key Largo, I can attest that they are big animals!

Learning to dive off those steps going up to the top of the diving platform. I remember as a kid being on the second step and papping missen..

I remember the dolphins at Armly Baths. It was definitely in the 1970s as we were taken from school and it was before 1974 when I moved from junior school, i'd have been about 10 years old.I also remember that a boy and girl were chosen from the audience and sat in a rubber dinghy. A rope was attached to the dinghy which had a ring on it, which in turn was placed on the dolphin's snout and they were pulled down the length of the pool. Not much health and safety there that I can remember!!!!! One of the trainers with the dolphins had no fingers on one hand and us kids reckoned she had had them bitten off by a man eating dolphin!!!!!!!!I'd almost forgotten about that whole event

Well I'll go t'foot of our stairs... ... I never knew that. I went to Armley baths nearly every week from 66-74 and I'd never heard of dolphins there. I learned to swim there too, also by being lobbed to the deep end, from about the middle of the big pool, by my mates dad who just presumed could swim. I certainly learned very quickly!! What was that lifeguard called with one short leg??

I learnt to swim at Bramley Baths, but do remember a guy with a short leg at the International Pool in the late 70s, think he was the manager there.

Loiner Paul wrote: I remember the dolphins at Armly Baths. It was definitely in the 1970s as we were taken from school and it was before 1974 when I moved from junior school, i'd have been about 10 years old.I also remember that a boy and girl were chosen from the audience and sat in a rubber dinghy. A rope was attached to the dinghy which had a ring on it, which in turn was placed on the dolphin's snout and they were pulled down the length of the pool. Not much health and safety there that I can remember!!!!! One of the trainers with the dolphins had no fingers on one hand and us kids reckoned she had had them bitten off by a man eating dolphin!!!!!!!!I'd almost forgotten about that whole event I'm amazed! I thought dolphins would prefer sea-water (salty) and I assume they must have refilled the pool with clean (ie: unchlorinated water) otherwise it would have been a Health & Safety issue for the dolphins! I would love to know how they were transported, and how they got them from the street and into the pool.    

Si wrote: Loiner Paul wrote: I remember the dolphins at Armly Baths. It was definitely in the 1970s as we were taken from school and it was before 1974 when I moved from junior school, i'd have been about 10 years old.I also remember that a boy and girl were chosen from the audience and sat in a rubber dinghy. A rope was attached to the dinghy which had a ring on it, which in turn was placed on the dolphin's snout and they were pulled down the length of the pool. Not much health and safety there that I can remember!!!!! One of the trainers with the dolphins had no fingers on one hand and us kids reckoned she had had them bitten off by a man eating dolphin!!!!!!!!I'd almost forgotten about that whole event I'm amazed! I thought dolphins would prefer sea-water (salty) and I assume they must have refilled the pool with clean (ie: unchlorinated water) otherwise it would have been a Health & Safety issue for the dolphins! I would love to know how they were transported, and how they got them from the street and into the pool.     Me too!!