Leeds swimming pools

[chameleon]

See this also - http://www.secretleeds.co.uk/forum/Mess ... ighLight=1

[Leeds Hippo]

chameleon wrote: See this also - http://www.secretleeds.co.uk/forum/Mess ... ighLight=1 Thanks chameleon thats really interesting - looking at Leodis the Cookridge Street baths looked really impressive - I'm surprised they pulled them down. It's amazing the number of times I've heard of impressive structures being demolished only to be replaced by inferior buildings.

[Leeds Hippo]

The Parksider wrote: Chrism wrote: Leeds Hippo wrote: some photos suggests subsidence was a problem. Yeah you can see that here. The Wortley Busk Colliery was on top of the hill on the Rec so subsidence from the mine was a possibility....From Asket Hill School (or Foxwood) we used to go swimming to Joseph Street of all places....... Thanks Parksider - anyone who has played football on the Rec may have noticed some remarkable hollows in the pitch!

[LS1]

Leeds Hippo wrote: chameleon wrote: See this also - http://www.secretleeds.co.uk/forum/Mess ... ighLight=1 Thanks chameleon thats really interesting - looking at Leodis the Cookridge Street baths looked really impressive - I'm surprised they pulled them down. It's amazing the number of times I've heard of impressive structures being demolished only to be replaced by inferior buildings. Ah yes, but at the time theuy were though of as being ugly and inferior and everyone wanted the Poulson type buildings. I wonder in 50 years time of we will be lamenting the loss of the international pool and other such 1960s architecture.

[goldberg2]

Cookridge Street Public Baths

I're read in various places that Cookridge Street Baths closed on 4th February 1965.

However, I have a distinct memory of swimming in an oval pool in Cookridge Street Baths, with changing cubicles on a raised gallery with iron railings, overlooking the pool. I also used the warm baths there, at a time when the bathroom in my student accommodation was bitterly cold and unusable in the winter. All of this would have been during my student years at the University: 1966-1969.
I'd arrived at Leeds aged 18 still unable to swim, but learned to swim in the Cookridge Street pool.

Does anyone know when Cookridge Street Baths actually finally closed ?
(Or do I have false memory syndrome !).

[buffaloskinner]

Have a read of the comments about Cookridge Baths on Leodis

https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/79294

There is also an article in the Secret Library

https://secretlibraryleeds.net/2020/11/ ... lic-baths/