Anyone out there remember the open air pool in Longley Park. I enjoyed many happy days there in '73, '74, 75. It was a great place to meet friends during the summer holidays.

Originally posted by "mslotus"

Anyone out there remember the open air pool in Longley Park. I enjoyed many happy days there in '73, '74, 75. It was a great place to meet friends during the summer holidays.

I remember the Pool but I never saw it open. An Empty mess is how I remember it. I am talking about 80's though here, it was probably long gone by then.

I believe it closed its doors to the public in the late '70's.Shame .

I used to go Longley Park Swimming Pool in the Summer holidays and then "climb over" the fence at night eventually get chased round the park by the "Park Patrol", always on a motorbike!!! There was that many of us that he didnt know which one to follow and usually ended up losing all of us. What a laugh - those were definitely the days. :lol:

Yes I do!
Used to go there every Sunday in the summers of 1970s, spent many happy hours there before everything went pear shaped.

It was very popular with people in Sheffield for swimming and sunbathing also it was sheltered and quite pleasant even if a cool wind was blowing.

Although I noticed that some dirty devils never got out of the water to use the toilet, it fair put me off and I eventually stopped going for that reason alone. :( :( :( s

I know just what you mean. I can't ever remember seeing anyone change the water in the pool. Maybe they did it late at night when certain people(mentioning no SHOCKER names) were being chased around the park by the park patrol. They were fun days though.

I can remember the pool, although only ever been in it once (maybe twice) ..... :o @ Shocker, so your the one('s) we use to watch clambering over the fence, lol :wink:

Ooops - looks like I've let the cat of the bag!!! All good fun and well worth the bruises!

I once went to Longley baths in the 60s as a child and the water was a greeny colour. reading the notes above now i know why.
I prefered Millhouses though but thats another story.
I now live in Longley as i was dragged up, sorry brought up in Pitsmoor which was a nice area in the 60s and that also is another story.
Longley baths however is no longer and its a shame because kids these days don,t have a lot to do.
If Longley baths was to open these days i doubt that it would be treated with respect by this young generation as we appreciated these things in our youth as our parents had more control over there own kids without the do gooders without kids taking old fashion parental control away, and again that is also another story.[/b]

as a boy 1950s i went to carfield school,at that time my uncle was the manager of,heeley baths BROADFIELD ROAD,he trained me up to swim for the school,and i remember swimming a gala at longley swimming pool,on the day the temp wa 49,,many memories(oh by the way i won the race)

Anyone please give information on the memorial stone by the stream in Longley Park Sheffield.

Edited out mass use of capitals - Lickszz

Hi there. Welcome to the board. I have seen the memorial which you refer to and am sure I have read something engraved on it. However, this was many years ago and I can't recall what it said.

I believe it is a memorial to Mary Booth who was murdered there last century by her lover.
She is still burried in the park but not were that headstone lies.
Her ghost can be seen in the park around midnight with her lover on a white horse on Valentines day.

I used to go to Longley pool in the fifty's when it was always clean and packed with teenages. Great fun, and afterwards sit with crowd of other teenagers at the very top off the hill overlooking the pool near to what was called lovers lane. I wonder if any other Forum readers remember the early days there?

Used to go midnight swimming there in the great summer of 1976 great days.

I used to go to the pool in the 60's, living in Crowland RD, it was our local spot, allways packed in summer if we got a warm spell. We spent many happy hours also flying model aircraft in the park. It's so sad to see Longley park now so run down, and just used as a giant "doggy toilet".

We swam there a couple of times in the summer, late 70's-early 80's. It was always freezing cold water and full of stupid lads showing off. My sis got thrown in at the deep end, then was ducked under for so long I was scared she'd drown. No-one knew whether she could swim or not, good job she could. The safety measures didn't seem to exist then. We were a bit scared after that and stopped going.

Does any one know any spooky history of Longley park as iv heard a woman got killed there years ago and my dog seems to go beserk when we pass a certain tree even my bf says he feels some one is watching him as its our nightly walk.

from what i no a woman was hanged there hundreds of years ago .........been trying to find the said tree for years

Really i forgot to mention that as we past it my bf could smell like a horrible musky smell i couldnt but iv got cold if this is the tree its as you walk past the stream and stay on the path its just abit further up just stood on its own have u got any web sites on this

wish i had .been trying to find out info myself but if i do find anything out ill pm you:thumbsup:

If you find anything out panda, could you post it on here?

From Longley myself, so I'm intrugued.

*From YPS Member about Longley

A friend of mine once told me that a few years ago he was jogging through
the park at night, when he had a wierd experience. He was pretty tired by
then, and was breathing heavily. All of a sudden, he could hear someone
either breathing the same, or mocking him, right over his shoulder. He
looked back but couldn't see anything. When he stopped, the breathing
stopped, and as he continued it started again.

He took off and didn't stop until he got out of the park. It scared him
****less, but as he stood getting his breath back on the pavement outside
the park, he saw another jogger coming his way through the park. As he
watched, the man suddenly looked back with what appeared to be shock, and
started to run faster. It seemed to be at exactly the same place that he had
heard the breathing.

Unfortunately, he didn't ask the jogger what had happened, but I can't
remember if it was that he took another route, or my friend just didn't feel
like saying anything.

My only thought was perhaps some kind of freak echo, but as this is in the
middle of the park, surrounded by trees, it seems unlikely

Crowder house used to stand where the football ground is now, it was pulled down in the 1930s, part of it straddled where the bottom of Crowland Rd is now. I wonder if any of the strange experiences go back to this? A man comitted suicide sometime between 1950 and 1956 on the edges of the old Firth Park Grammer field and the wood at the top of the hill in the park above the swimming pool.

The woman murdered in Longley Park was called Mary Booth who's body still lies in the park.
She was murdered by her husband after she was caught in bed with her lover in a house on the old brushes ground.
He chased her into the park on horse back and murdered her and there is a plaque by the stream marking her grave.
It is said that the horseman can be seen in the park on a white horse at 12 midnight every valentines day.

Just to note:

The small wooded area at the side of the ambulance station on Herries Drive is also haunted.
Unconfirmed info says a young boy drowned in the marsh in there.
A local woman who walks her dog every morning around 6 AM heard children playing in the wood in December last year and it stopped her in her tracks and she turned back.
She wont go down there now.

i no sometimes i walk my dog thrulongley park and it dont always feel right....................my house is allegdly haunted but to be honest it dont bother me much for some reason:loopy:

Where is the plaque for this Mary Booth as me and my bf had a nosey and couldnt see any thing. We did see a big concrete slap thing looked like a drain coverer but didnt have no writing on it!!!!!!!

:thumbsup: YPS are going down to investigate this in the next few days PM me if you wanna pop along and show me this tree or the plaque of her grave. :thumbsup: Jon

Originally posted by Jon
:thumbsup: YPS are going down to investigate this in the next few days PM me if you wanna pop along and show me this tree or the plaque of her grave. :thumbsup: Jon Sorry i,m misleading you, the site is actually engraved on a stone next to the stream but note that Mary Booth is burried around the tree area near the top.

Originally posted by Cycleracer
Sorry i,m misleading you, the site is actually engraved on a stone next to the stream but note that Mary Booth is burried around the tree area near the top. Thanks for the information Cycleracer :thumbsup: Jon

Cycleracer could you please email me regarding Longely Park and Wentworth Thanks :thumbsup: Jon

what is your best recollection of longley park
mine is throwing rocks at the conkers to get them down also taking cardboard boxes to slide down the steep grass slopes and in winter sliding down on sledges

Flying model aeroplanes, yhis was my local park before leaving to live in Scarborough, I was still flying models here at the grand old! age of sixty only two years ago, great fun, i'm activly trying not to grow up!! Lovers lane in the park was also my first introduction to girls, although no more about that!

One of the great things about Longley in the sixties was the Lido (we just called it Longley baths).
On the half dozen or so sunny days of the summer, we used to flock to it in our thousands, often spending the whole day there. I remember once taking a visiting cousin from York and he was amazed. Said we didn't need to bother with the seaside!
It was a great place to meet and mix with girls. I recall a bunch of them coming up from Buchanan Road, (did they breed them special on Buchanan? There were loads of them!) and my mates and I were like the proverbial flies. I even had a summer romance, at the age of fifteen, based around Longley baths.
One time, Tony Ball was showing off and cut his head performing a spectacular double-half-flip-with-a-twist-and-turn dive. (In some circles that dive is now known as a Tony Ball!!)
Luckily, the City General was just round the corner. We laughed for weeks, horrid things that we were.
Mind you, the water was absolutely freezing.

Was He the one with more suntan than anybody else?, had a curly black hairdo, and wore salmon pink "he man trunks"..used to do a lot of handstands etc (when the girls were around) and seemed to be there every day???.

That's the very chap...

These days i live in Longley and never really knew the area until i got married as i married a Longley lass, however i did visit the lido in 1976 a couple of times and i came once as a lad in the late 60s and remember the water being very green.
The baths remained until about 10 years ago locked and derelict and i heard on the grape vine that it may come back though i won't hold my breath.

Cycleracer,

Liked that, "I wont hold my breath".

Seriously though, Anyone, If you've not seen it try to get a hold of a copy of:
"A Home of Our Own"

This was published by the Longley and Southey local history group in 1988. They also published an earlier book which I think went under the title of:
"It Was All Fields THen".
Both books give a brief history of the Longley area and there's quite a bit about Longley Park and the baths, including photo's.
I know Southey Library at one time had both books on the shelf.

In the 60's and 70's I was a regular user of the baths, even now the thought brings a shiver to my body, the cold, cold water. BRRRRR

Mine was my dad sitting me on a sledge at the age of about 3 and shoving me down the hill. Then id fall off and hed do it again i used to think he enjoyed it more than me!!

Im too young to remember the baths but my dad and his brothers (Wayne, Dale and Craig Salvin) always tells me how good they were.

i remember going there , must have been in the fifties with mam and dad.
goin in the open air pool , cold but great fun......all gone now

I remember Longley Park open air pool.
We used to spend all day there in the good weather.
You had to take a basket and put your clothes over it and shoes in it and then hand it in at the window after you'd changed into your swimwear.
There was bags of room to stretch out on grassy banking.
You had to watch where you put your suntan cream. If you left it with the top off someone would most likely jump on it and squeeze all the contents out.
I remember a couple who used to come in regularly.
They used to rub a mixture of olive oil and vinegar on their skin.
It sent them brown, but I wouldn't have risked it. I'd keep vinegar to put on me chips and fish.

I only remember playing football there on the odd Sunday morning (I'm not from that end of town).
My lasting memory was playing on a particularly freezing wet day on a pitch that had a similar slope to, lets say, Granville Road. The bald little ref, known as Osram, had forgotten his boots and had to ref in his brown suede desert doccers.. best of all he had one leg shorter than the other (do any of you lot remember him?) and due to the angle of the pitch, he could only run around in a circle!

..........or it might have something to do with a WW2 plane that crashed landed there.

Originally posted by foxy27
..........or it might have something to do with a WW2 plane that crashed landed there.

Wrong park thats endcliffe.

That was a US plane that hung on after being shot at to prevent crashing into the houses. The captian refused to bail out as the plane would crash into houses he saw the park and headed for their. The rest of the crew decided to go down with him, even though they could have all bailed out, with no lose to honour.

A memorial service is held there every year with british and US service men and the RBL.

Jubby
As to the stone in Longley have seen it too but can't remember what its for.

An old post about this from a few months back here
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8316&highlight=longley+park+stream

I dont know how YPS went on, or even if they went.

I remember seeing an ex footballer called Macmillan who had lost part of his leg. He was very fit. He used to use the diving board regularly. Them were the days!
I used to regularly stand on me head (supported by me hands of course). I thought it was a grand feat, although I wasn't very athletic at that time.
There was no shortage of lasses to rub your suntan cream in.
Doesn't time fly!

Originally posted by ginger
what is your best recollection of longley park
mine is throwing rocks at the conkers to get them down also taking cardboard boxes to slide down the steep grass slopes and in winter sliding down on sledges
going swimming on a sunday afternoon

we lived on piper close, spent many times at longley park, had to walk through the park to get to st patricks school, we use to sit on the hill watching people in the baths,wishing we could meet some boys, lines were always too long for the baths so we didn't go very often.

Remember going to the baths in the 70's - good times, also the par 3 golf course - is that still there? Used it alot!

Also remember a football field that was saucer shaped!

Both goals up on a hill, and a fairly dramatic "valley" shape inbetween them.

Originally posted by ginger
what is your best recollection of longley park
mine is throwing rocks at the conkers to get them down also taking cardboard boxes to slide down the steep grass slopes and in winter sliding down on sledges
going swimming on a sunday they used queue right up to the park gates

been there with the dogs today,did there used tio be a out door swimming pool there? i'm sure there did years ago..where exactly was it?:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

You didn't take the budgie then? :hihi:

Yes, it has been gone years.

Originally posted by Lickszz
Yes, it has been gone years.

Whats there now in it's place ?

it used to be at the frth-park end of the park sadly the council filled it in after joy riders dumped stolen cars in it!! :|

Kirky, there was a thread recently about Longley Park with quite a bit about the swimming pool, don't know if you saw it.

Originally posted by algy
Kirky, there was a thread recently about Longley Park with quite a bit about the swimming pool, don't know if you saw it.
no i didn't but thanks i'll do a search now:thumbsup:

if was stood on the bottom football pitch facing the park where would the baths have been from there? i'm not from that area so i never saw them.

Kirky said: if was stood on the bottom football pitch facing the park where would the baths have been from there?

Kirky, if you mean the full size pitches, then you are at the wrong side of the park. The baths where at the Longley Lane, Crowder Avenue end of the park, near to the bowling green and tennis courts (both still there).

Click on the link below, photo taken last year.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/wharncliffe/Copied338.jpg

The baths stood where you can now see the 5-a-side football pitch.

Edited: Just read my post its actually Crowder Road not Avenue.

With the climate getting warmer, I think it would be good commercial venture for the Council to rebuild the Baths at longley park or at Millhouses park..I remember them as great places to be in the summer time...On hot days you had to queue ages to get in..."Think about it" with the addition of Restaurants, bars, and other features ( like a luxury Gym)...Sheffield Parks would be a great place to visit.

PS... if any one from the Council is reading this, and proposes to submit it as an origional idea... I don't want any praise or reward on my behalf...I just would like to see it happen .

I remember we never used the park gate entrance as threre was always the same hole in the fence for years near the bottom of our street, we consdiered that OUR private entrance to the park, wasn't a very good fence, all you had to do was give it a good shove and step on it, it stayed flat for years.

Originally posted by pietro
Kirky, if you mean the full size pitches, then you are at the wrong side of the park. The baths where at the Longley Lane, Crowder Avenue end of the park, near to the bowling green and tennis courts (both still there).

Click on the link below, photo taken last year.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/wharncliffe/Copied338.jpg

The baths stood where you can now see the 5-a-side football pitch.

Edited: Just read my post its actually Crowder Road not Avenue.

cheers mate..it must be a bleedin big park coz i never saw that bit on saturday:o

im so gald to have found this thead


my 10year old daughter as never belive me till now.that they was once a out door swimming pool in this park.

does anyone have a photo of it at all to show her ??

Originally posted by spinny

does anyone have a photo of it at all to show her ??

The only one I could find, not long before it was filled in I imagine...

http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=9616

Mod Note: Several similar threads merged; please search before posting a new topic. Thanks'

I used to love going down the camel humps on me bmx, and getting chased by "The Parkie" on the motorbike for playing golf without paying. :hihi:

Originally posted by MARTINO 1
Anyone please give information on the memorial stone by the stream in Longley Park Sheffield.

Edited out mass use of capitals - Lickszz

I remember the stone from when we used to roam the park in the 50's. It's in memory of a doctor who tended the sick in the Sheffield cholera outbreak, and who died himself from the disease. Can't remember the name though.

Originally posted by pietro
Cycleracer,

Liked that, "I wont hold my breath".

Seriously though, Anyone, If you've not seen it try to get a hold of a copy of:
"A Home of Our Own"

This was published by the Longley and Southey local history group in 1988. They also published an earlier book which I think went under the title of:
"It Was All Fields THen".
Both books give a brief history of the Longley area and there's quite a bit about Longley Park and the baths, including photo's.
I know Southey Library at one time had both books on the shelf.

In the 60's and 70's I was a regular user of the baths, even now the thought brings a shiver to my body, the cold, cold water. BRRRRR
There are still copies around, in fact I borrowed it today from our local library. I'd forgotten most of the things in there. Like there used to be water polo matches between Wednesday and United, captained by Derek Dooley, as well as an annual swimming gala. There's a photo of him leading the team out, and standing next to him is Mr Crookes the park keeper, anyone remember him? I lived on longley for 18 years from the age of 6, and the park was our regular playground. Later we used to fly our model planes in the park, but only gliders were allowed. If you tried to fly one with an engine Mr Crookes would appear from nowhere, resplendent in full uniform complete with peaked cap and tell you in no uncertain terms to clear off. According to the book, the water in the pool was heated by gas and kept as near as possible to 70 degrees. It never felt lie it to me!

Just clicked on the pic of that turn stile and what a startle it gave..The countless number of times my mates and I from Windmill lane have been through there in the 40s. we couldnt wait till it opened for the season even though it usually meant a long walk ( due to lack of funds) great Picture!

Hi all,I too did the midnight dips in longley with a few mates,last time we did it was in 78 when some one was firing a airgun at us.only went at day from then,still remember it as clear as day,those stupid clothes hangers and a arm band and the guy who used to have the brownist body this side of turkey hanging around the tuck shop all day.

Originally posted by algy
I remember the stone from when we used to roam the park in the 50's. It's in memory of a doctor who tended the sick in the Sheffield cholera outbreak, and who died himself from the disease. Can't remember the name though.

I remember the stream, it was full of leaches,(Blood Suckers)
we use to call them.

We spent many hours sitting on the hill trying to meet boys ,watching people swim in that mucky water ! the line was so long rtying to get into the baths on weekends, don't remember seing a life guard back then either, if you got hurn you just ran to the hut and got a plaster.

The tennis courts were out of bounds to us riff raff, only the posh people could play .

Originally posted by little malc
Crowder house used to stand where the football ground is now, it was pulled down in the 1930s, part of it straddled where the bottom of Crowland Rd is now. I wonder if any of the strange experiences go back to this? A man comitted suicide sometime between 1950 and 1956 on the edges of the old Firth Park Grammer field and the wood at the top of the hill in the park above the swimming pool.

Crowland House was actually where Crowland Road is now. The first two houses at the side of the park were the start of the driveway to the house. It was planted with beech trees on either side and some of them can still be seen today (or at least they could around the 1980's). On the brow of the hill where the football/cricket changing hut was you could see the furrows in the ground from the vegatable garden that belonged to the house before it was all turned over to the Council. Mr Applewhite who lived in the first house knew a great deal about the history - sadly he is no longer here. He used to have a fridge at the top of his drive selling ice cream in the summer.

Originally posted by mslotus
Anyone out there remember the open air pool in Longley Park. I enjoyed many happy days there in '73, '74, 75. It was a great place to meet friends during the summer holidays.

Went there in the late 50's and 60's. It used to get packed. Then it was the men that did the posing. Showing their muscles off after doing all the body building. I can't remember it being dirty but can remember having lots of fun.

Hi! I have just registered to the forum because I read this post and wanted to reply. I live in Longley and my house overlooks the park. (I live on Crowder rd). I was looking for the history of the park and this thread came up. I am only 14 so Iv never seen the swimming pool but I know where it used to be.

Iv got two questions.:
1.Has anybody got, or knows where to get any more information on the Mary Booth story as it is very interesting?
2.I walk my dog nearly everyday in the park and I have never seen a memorial stone near the stream even though I go past every day. Could someone please tell me EXACTLY where it is?

I would be very grateful if you could answer these. Thanks!

Originally posted by Bigbirdssg
Hi! I have just registered to the forum because I read this post and wanted to reply. I live in Longley and my house overlooks the park. (I live on Crowder rd). I was looking for the history of the park and this thread came up. I am only 14 so Iv never seen the swimming pool but I know where it used to be.

Iv got two questions.:
1.Has anybody got, or knows where to get any more information on the Mary Booth story as it is very interesting?
2.I walk my dog nearly everyday in the park and I have never seen a memorial stone near the stream even though I go past every day. Could someone please tell me EXACTLY where it is?

I would be very grateful if you could answer these. Thanks! Behind the 2 park-keepers' houses there is a short section of stream. It then disappears into a culvert, and there was a memorial stone to a doctor in the retaining wall just before the culvert. I haven't been in the park for 30 years so things may have changed, but it was my stomping ground when I was a kid and lived on the Longley Estate

As algy says take a look in the culvert (the bit that is fenced off) to the left of the stream.
Standing with your back to the path the memorial stone is on your right hand side, right at the very bottom of the wall amongst all the rubbish.
If at first you cant see it, persevere, its very worn.

Originally posted by algy
Behind the 2 park-keepers' houses there is a short section of stream. It then disappears into a culvert, and there was a memorial stone to a doctor in the retaining wall just before the culvert. I haven't been in the park for 30 years so things may have changed, but it was my stomping ground when I was a kid and lived on the Longley Estate

if its the same one im thinking of it is indeed still there

Good news for Longley Park.......some kids from Longley Primary have been in there planting loads of trees in this freezing weather, bless 'em.

Good news for the estate yobs.........there's something else for you to vandalise you scum.

Odds on that they get pulled up and just two left about 8' apart for use as goalposts.

But, at least the 9-10 year olds are trying to do their bit.

Well done to them!:clap:

Does anyone remeber Dennis Bottom and Jacqueline Ashmore as they are my Grandparents and they used to live around here in the 50s?

(Thanks for telling me where the stone is. I'll have a butchers next time I'm in the park.);)

We ( me and friends used to skinny dip in the late 80's ) after hours, proper good fun. Also got whacked in the kite with a driver on the pitch and putt when I was about 11 yrs, stood too close to the lad teeing off. happy days except the whack :thumbsup:

Originally posted by mslotus
Anyone out there remember the open air pool in Longley Park. I enjoyed many happy days there in '73, '74, 75. It was a great place to meet friends during the summer holidays. i mslotus used to go to longley baths all time late 50s tomid 60s mainly summer ,maltese sam used to run it with a bloke called brian

Used to go there in the 70`s with a load of mates. Remember the water always being bl***y freezing though. Still a really great outside baths at Bamford. Is it still open in the summers?

Originally posted by Bigbirdssg
Hi! I have just registered to the forum because I read this post and wanted to reply. I live in Longley and my house overlooks the park. (I live on Crowder rd). I was looking for the history of the park and this thread came up. I am only 14 so Iv never seen the swimming pool but I know where it used to be.

Iv got two questions.:
1.Has anybody got, or knows where to get any more information on the Mary Booth story as it is very interesting?
2.I walk my dog nearly everyday in the park and I have never seen a memorial stone near the stream even though I go past every day. Could someone please tell me EXACTLY where it is?

I would be very grateful if you could answer these. Thanks! Mary Booth was the mistress at the premises where the old school was (Now Longley College) and was found out by her husband of having an affair.
He chased her into Longley Park and murdered her, and her body is still in the park near a tree at the top.
Go to page 1 on this thread, there is a little info about her.

Thanks for the replies:D

used the baths from 74 to early 80's. early 80's used to climb over fence after pub for a late night dip and hide in the bushes from park patrol. also used to collect golf flags for park keeper ernie for a free game of putting. good days.

Today I took my dog for a walk in the park and found the memorial stone. I wouldnt have seen it if they hadnt have cleaned up the stream area. It is very worn and the only words I could make out were 18 obvioulsy part of a year. What looked like 55th but it could have been some other number and Epidemic. I couldnt make out any more of the words. I tried to take a picture of it to put up here but its so worn that when I took a photo it just looked like a bit of stone.

Like BonnieClyde I was there in the fifties and also used to sit at the top of the hill. I remember McMillan the footballer, who had lost part of his leg. We used to watch him when he came to swim. I used to meet up with my friends and I remember enjoying sitting with the girls. We had to change and hand our clothes in a basket where we then got a wrist band.
I used to do head stands to impress and I remember a bronzed couple who came in regularly. They used to plaster on the vinegar and olive oil. I stuck to the Soltan cream.
Happy memories which are now revived.
Sheffield Forum is ace for this.

Like BonnieClyde I was there in the fifties and also used to sit at the top of the hill. I remember McMillan the footballer, who had lost part of his leg. We used to watch him when he came to swim. I used to meet up with my friends and I remember enjoying sitting with the girls. We had to change and hand our clothes in a basket where we then got a wrist band.
I used to do head stands to impress and I remember a bronzed couple who came in regularly. They used to plaster on the vinegar and olive oil. I stuck to the Soltan cream.
Happy memories which are now revived.
Sheffield Forum is ace for this.:cool: Does anyone know when Longley baths were built? I know my parents,family,and friends took me there,as a very young child.I think it was in the early 40s.I remember screaming the place down in the changing cubicles! I wanted my Mum, who was sitting on th grassy embankment outside the pool area.It was a scorching hot day.There were hundreds of people milling around. Scary for a young Un!A bit like the seaside to us kids off the estate-but no sea.Could get ice cream tho. I"ve looked through this thread and can"t see any mention of the fact that part of Longley Park used to be the Municipal tip. If that is true,there must be a lot of old stuff under there worth a bit now!

Today I took my dog for a walk in the park and found the memorial stone. I wouldnt have seen it if they hadnt have cleaned up the stream area. It is very worn and the only words I could make out were 18 obvioulsy part of a year. What looked like 55th but it could have been some other number and Epidemic. I couldnt make out any more of the words. I tried to take a picture of it to put up here but its so worn that when I took a photo it just looked like a bit of stone.
Glad you found it. It wasn't very clear when I saw it in the late 50's early 60's though you could make out most of it with care.

I used to go to Longley pool in the fifty's when it was always clean and packed with teenages. Great fun, and afterwards sit with crowd of other teenagers at the very top off the hill overlooking the pool near to what was called lovers lane. I wonder if any other Forum readers remember the early days there?

I was there at that time too, remember having to queue to get in at times, get a basket for your clothes and then get your tag, it was a bugger if you lost the tag. Lovers lane finished the day off well, if you were lucky, from what I hear, Longley, Southey & Shirecliffe aint what they used to be, but I have many happy memories of those areas.

The only one I could find, not long before it was filled in I imagine...

http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=9616

I have a photo of Longley Park Baths if anyone is intrested

yes, please post it.

yes, please post it.

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Mine was my dad sitting me on a sledge at the age of about 3 and shoving me down the hill. Then id fall off and hed do it again i used to think he enjoyed it more than me!!

Im too young to remember the baths but my dad and his brothers (Wayne, Dale and Craig Salvin) always tells me how good they were.

Hi

i know your uncles went to school with Dale...had a lot of fun in the park with them...they used to live on Elm lane if i'm right...

Hi

i know your uncles went to school with Dale...had a lot of fun in the park with them...they used to live on Elm lane if i'm right...
They lived on Emmerson, I have fond memories of Dale!

yes, please post it.

Hi if i have done this right the image is here http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l130/syrup_03/longleybaths2.jpg

Hope this works

wow it does sorry about the quality old photo

For some rason I think I remember sometime in the late 80's the pool being used for canoes. Dunno if I am remembering correctly, it could have been somewhere else but I used to spend a lot of time in that park as I lived on southey hall road. I have also seen the memorial stone but don't remember the wording.

BABYBOOM

just been talking to dale on the phone...we grew up together and remain close friends...we both would love to hear about the memories you have of him????