Slough Coke Stoves

Heating was a problem, and the temporary answer for shivering bathers was to place 8 coke stoves around the perimeter of the pool!
Water was tested by filling a pool sample bottle, then taken away to be analysed, to return results the following days. Consequently the appropriate adjustment of ph levels took place!
OUTCOME:
The Community Pool survived until early 2003.
When I visited to catch up with the present and spotted the welcolming sign, I was beginning to wish I’d taken my swim suit along, until I saw the sign at close sight... ALAS!
I was greeted by a drained pool. The side of the once sunshine patio windows, (before blocking), was laden and stacked with company boxes. It was providing storage space for a packaging company. One of the directors, a past patron of the pool, explained that it was the cleanest, clearest water he’d known, but unfortunately there had been structural problems around the mid-eighties. The pool was closed for 9 months whilst changing rooms were built the other side of the pool. Patrons began using other surrounding facilities, and dwindled away. Eventually, despite loyalty of those that used the pool, and many protests, the pool closed. The staff that worked there

Prior to the war years, there had been periods of closure due to plant and roof structure faults, and an outdated chlorination system. After the war, the problems had been addressed, and the pool, having now had the patio openings blocked, - made headway once again, and, managed by Charles, more National Champions emerged. The diving boards included a 1 metre springboard and a symmetrically stepped stage up to 8 feet high. Due to bathers jumping from one side of the stage, whilst others were diving from the other, it got a little out of hand between the swimmers, therefore the solution was to remove one half of the stage!