The Oldies Thread

[LEONARD]

….went there plenty back in the day, water was always freezing.

Went a lot to Broadway baths in Norris Green as a kid.

I am sure the chlorine levels were actually illegal.

You would come out with red raw eyes and stinking like disinfectant.

Parents today would be straight on the phone to ' Sue Em, Grabbit, and Run, for compo!

 

[Eggs]

Went a lot to Broadway baths in Norris Green as a kid.

I am sure the chlorine levels were actually illegal.

You would come out with red raw eyes and stinking like disinfectant.

Parents today would be straight on the phone to ' Sue Em, Grabbit, and Run, for compo!

.….I recall spending lots of time in Margaret St baths in Everton. Inside the entrance were a number of bath tubs were locals could pay for a hot bath because not all houses had them back then. Loved that place, I can almost smell it now.

 

[tommytowne]

….went there plenty back in the day, water was always freezing.

And stunk of piss.

 

[Methuselah]

Went a lot to Broadway baths in Norris Green as a kid.

I am sure the chlorine levels were actually illegal.

You would come out with red raw eyes and stinking like disinfectant.

Parents today would be straight on the phone to ' Sue Em, Grabbit, and Run, for compo!

The best bit used to be after the swimming (drowning). You could get some hot buttered toast in the canteen area.

 

[roydo]

Talking of swimming baths, I am reminded when me and my cousin went to the concord(?) baths at West Kirby. After swimming we went to get a cup of hot chocolate from the vending machine, and somehow, the cup was dispensed upside down. Hot chocolate all over the place.

Made me giggle just thinking about it. We would have been 10 or 11 I reckon.

 

[Toast]

Guinea Gap baths in Seacombe.

Had salt water in when I used to go there.

That was an eye stinger.

 

[magicjuan]

Went a lot to Broadway baths in Norris Green as a kid.

I am sure the chlorine levels were actually illegal.

You would come out with red raw eyes and stinking like disinfectant.

Parents today would be straight on the phone to ' Sue Em, Grabbit, and Run, for compo!

Me too, see kids dicking about lying face down in the verruca pool.
Remember there being a 'glory hole' in almost every cubicle, and true about swimming in domestos.
And 'Len Faircloughs' knocking about the little pool.
Best part was getting 'soup' (sic) from the machine on the way out or chips from just up the road.

 

[Toast]

Me too, see kids dicking about lying face down in the verruca pool.
Remember there being a 'glory hole' in almost every cubicle, and true about swimming in domestos.
And 'Len Faircloughs' knocking about the little pool.
Best part was getting 'soup' (sic) from the machine on the way out or chips from just up the road.

Soup in them little brown plastic cups from vending machines was always boss.

 

[Ray Purchase]

.….I recall spending lots of time in Margaret St baths in Everton. Inside the entrance were a number of bath tubs were locals could pay for a hot bath because not all houses had them back then. Loved that place, I can almost smell it now.

According to some of our resident lefties, that's all a myth mate.

We recall our past to advance some kind of 'racist' romanticised working class narrative.

The world's gone absolutely bonkers.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

.….I recall spending lots of time in Margaret St baths in Everton. Inside the entrance were a number of bath tubs were locals could pay for a hot bath because not all houses had them back then. Loved that place, I can almost smell it now.

Walton baths definitely had them.
They also had an overspill pool and a great hot chocolate machine.

 

[Ray Purchase]

Walton baths definitely had them.
They also had an overspill pool and a great hot chocolate machine.

I presume most of us only had baths at home.

Having a shower at the baths was deffo exotic.

 

[tommytowne]

Guinea Gap baths in Seacombe.

Had salt water in when I used to go there.

That was an eye stinger.

Coldest water all year round.

 

[Eggs]

I presume most of us only had baths at home.

Having a shower at the baths was deffo exotic.

….a bath in the 50s for us as kids was sitting in the sink but we had tin baths as we got bigger. Bathrooms fitted in the 60s but we still had a toilet in the back yard.

The showers i remember in the old public baths were communal for swimmers to use. From what I remember, the changing cubicles were around the side of the pool with a large shower in the corner.

 

[Toast]

Coldest water all year round.

Genuinely was.
You’d go to Leasowe Baths and that was fine to jump into, when there wasn’t a turd at the bottom like.
But standing next to the pool in Guinea Gap, with that concrete type of edge.. I can feel the fear even now !

 

[tommytowne]

I still remember those poor 'down and outs' gathering around fires on the bomb sites in town.

All swigging a purple liquid from bottles, my dad said it was 'juice', but I now realise this was meth's.

You know, I wouldn't know where to get meths from now.
Might have been the hardware store. I remember buying some to fuel the type of camping stove you used before the Camping Gaz canisters.