Quote:
Originally Posted by garinda
The old Accy baths, which closed in late '76, used to really scare me as a child. They had those heavy meatal beams holding the glass ceiling up, and what looked like circular saws with jagged edges on them as decoration. I learned to swim there thinking quickly, they could fall down and kill me!
I remember the changing cubicles were seperated. The men's were around the side of the pool, and the ladies were upstairs round the balcony. I can't remember what happened with your clothes though. Did you have a key and lock the cubicle, or was there a basket which you left with an attendant?
|
Rindy, you just left your clothes in the cubicle and hoped someone would steal them.........and leave you something better. I never had any money other than a few coppers with which to buy a bag of bits or a few chips.....Maybe folk were more honest then.
Everyone I knew used to put their coppers in their sock and stuff it into the toe of their shoe. So the crims didn't have to be a genius to rob us of our few coppers.
As for the Redman's query......I remember John Swanney. My mum used to love that potted salmon. I'm sure that john swanney later had a shop in Church St......that was after Redmans closed down.