Crookes Valley Park Swimming

[RollingJ 1,993]

1 hour ago, Rockers rule said:

More likely to have been Weil's disease.

 

Come on we've had all the foot related jokes.

Bring on the Wheel jokes - Submerged Bikes - Shopping Trolleys etc. 

 

Keep safe & Keep out of the water.

 

PS Hathersage  open air baths are heated hence the warmth - didn't used to be when we were kids & and they were bloody cold.

 

Cheers @Rockers rule- I had heard of that, but couldn't remember its cause. You are probably correct. 👍

[gillybear 10]

2 hours ago, Rockers rule said:

PS Hathersage  open air baths are heated hence the warmth - didn't used to be when we were kids & and they were bloody cold.

 

Has been heated since at least the 1960's, maybe not to the same temp, but heated. Many happy hours stood around the asbestos heat pipe......

[MICK BADGER 21]

13 hours ago, Padders said:

He wasn't swimming, he was fishing..

perhaps he caught a fish whilst swimming Weil never know

[Rockers rule 673]

3 hours ago, gillybear said:

Has been heated since at least the 1960's, maybe not to the same temp, but heated. Many happy hours stood around the asbestos heat pipe......

Prob early 60's when we first went Gillybear sure didn't feel heated.

often told story - of how me and my brother were watching our Mother swimming towards the deep end when she suddenly lifted out the water.

Only two frogmen trying out their aqualungs and had been sat there un-be-known to us.

They did apologize but has caused some merriment ever since.

 

Happy Daze, ride down to Hathersage Baths then up to visit Little John's grave, make sure he was still there.

 

Keep safe.

 

 

[butlers 259]

In my childhood was always told Crookes valley was bottomless.

I do wonder what the top level of the water was in its days as a reservoir.

 

[Annie Bynnol 611]

1 hour ago, butlers said:

In my childhood was always told Crookes valley was bottomless.

I do wonder what the top level of the water was in its days as a reservoir.

 

Two/three metres higher than it is now.

The embankment was never anything to do with the dam. It was built decades after.

The embankment was built by subscription of residents of Crookes/Commonside/Steel Bank/Walkley etc. and later Sheffield, to provide access- later it was used by the trams. 

It should have been built of rubble rather than household waste and getting hold of quality rubble proved difficult.

 

Edited May 31, 2021 by Annie Bynnol

[butlers 259]

Thats the most informative post I have ever seen on here.

 

[charliewag 19]

I used to fish Crookes Valley Park regularly and I remember in the90' s one of the volunteers who tended the flower beds caught Weils disease. He was ill for a long time but thankfully made a full recovery.

[Colin Foster 70]

Unfortunately one of the many that ignored the prohibition to swim in it has come a cropper

 

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/emergency-services-search-for-man-who-got-into-difficulty-in-water-at-sheffield-park-3312791

Edited July 18, 2021 by Colin Foster

[RJRB 684]

That’s very sad .

Whenever we get a hot spell there are tragedies such as this in rivers,reservoirs and canals.

[desy 10]

On 30/05/2021 at 19:44, desy said:

Does anyone remember in the 60's someone catching shoes disease through fishing in CVL

 

Correction limes 

[Rockers rule 673]

1 hour ago, desy said:

Correction limes 

Correction Limes ?

 

Lyme's disease - tick born.

 

Weil's disease - water / Rat born.

 

either way both are possible, 

Tick from damp ground near lake.

Water from handling fish / fishing rod? or anything else that's been in the water.

 

Keep safe.