Keepers Pool old and 5th December 2019 View attachment 139777View attachment 139778
Why did they take out the swimming pool? There always seemed to be plenty of people in it as well the lake. We would go into the pool, then the lake to swim out to the float!Keepers Pool old and 5th December 2019 View attachment 139777View attachment 139778
Those were the changing rooms etc for the pool. Mens & women's and the pumps for the pool filtration system. I don't remember if there was a tea shop or such.does anyone know what that building in the old photo was please
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and I was somewhere at the back probably, did two or three of these, not very successfully.
We were not with a club, three or four of us were given the OK to keep out of the way of you experts and ride as individuals, but we were not really good enough and the early starts were to much for us so after three or four sessions of dropping out halfway through we retired.What club did you ride for? I was with the Midland C&AC John Bishop also a member of BHF did an article on the club in this forumView attachment 140711
Eric, we traveled the same routs. We always stopped in Henley in Arden for ice cream!I used to cycle for leisure not sport, racing around and seeing nothing always seemed to be a daft idea.
From when I was about thirteen I'd get on my bike on Sunday morning and take off to Stratford, Evesham, Worcester etc. or go the other way up to Lichfield, Tamworth, Derby, even Stoke on Trent and Nottingham.
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We would race around the park a daft idea as you say but THEM we would go for a ride to all the places you mention, great Ice Cream at Henley in Arden still thereEric, we traveled the same routs. We always stopped in Henley in Arden for ice cream!
John, i saw what you said about racing on the roads and I raced time trials 25 mile and massed starts 72 miles starting when I was 13 and was never stopped.We would race around the park a daft idea as you say but THEM we would go for a ride to all the places you mention, great Ice Cream at Henley in Arden still there