The 1000 year swim challenge has really captured people’s imagination. Wherever I have swum, local people have thought it a great idea, and local media have turned out to cover the occasion. Here is some of what can be seen on the internet.
Image: Screenshot from The Guardian.co.uk
Features
- Tom Whipple, ‘It’s time to splash out to save our public baths‘, The Times, 22 September 2008. Feature (double page spread).
- Ian Jack, ‘Public baths, tiled spittoons and how save Britannia’s waves‘, The Guardian, 23 August 2008. Comment piece.
- Emma Robertson, ‘Architectural historian dives to the rescue of historic swimming pools‘. 24 hour museum, 29 August 2008. (website).
Bramley Baths, Leeds
- ‘Historian’s pool challenge‘ BBC TV Look North, 24 July 2008. (video 1 min 57 seconds)
- Joanne Ginley, ‘Historian dives in at the deep end with swimming pools challenge‘,Yorkshire Post, 25 July 2008, and see the Yorkshire Post video (2 mins 9 seconds).
- Tony Gardner, ‘Historian starts 1,438-year swim at Bramley Baths‘, Yorkshire Evening Post, 26 July 2008.
- Cherril Cliff, ‘A brilliant day for the baths‘, Yorkshire Evening Post, 2 August 2008. Tells how the baths got saved in the 1990s, having been derelict.
Batley Baths
- ‘Doctor advises pooling resources’, Batley News, 31 July 2008.
- Victoria Sheard, ‘Diving in for history task‘, Batley News, 7 August 2008.
Queensbury Pool and Manningham Baths, Bradford
- Kathie Griffiths, ‘Historian goes to great lengths‘, Telegraph and Argus (Bradford), 6 August 2008. (video 1 min 35 seconds)
- Ben Barnett, ‘Going to great lengths to save pools‘, Telegraph and Argus(Bradford), 6 August 2008. (story)
Aston University Sports Centre, Birmingham
- See the Aston University Press Release.
- ‘Swimming against the tide‘, The Stirrer, 5 August 2008.
Moseley Road Baths, Birmingham
- Tom Whipple, ‘It’s time to splash out to save our public baths‘, The Times, 22 September 2008. Feature (double page spread).
- ‘Swimming to save pools‘, BBC TV Midlands Today (video 1min 40 seconds)
- ‘101 years of swimming‘, BBC Radio WM (article plus ‘Ian Dungavell speaks to Jane France’ audio)
- ‘People‘, by Maev Kennedy, The Guardian, 8 August 2008.
- Jane Tyler, ‘Closure threatened Moseley Road baths gets swimathon boost‘,Birmingham Mail, 8 August 2008. (‘Swim boost in baths bid’).
- ‘Historian takes the plunge to hail Moseley Road Baths‘, Birmingham Post, 8 August 2008
- ‘Swimming against the tide‘, The Stirrer, 5 August 2008.
Tunstall Pool, Stoke on Trent
- ‘Historian dives in to mark age of swimming baths‘, The Sentinel, (Stoke on Trent), 7 August 2008
- Lucas Vale, ‘1,000 year swim‘, The Sentinel (Stoke on Trent), 13 August 2008. (video 1min 24 seconds)
- Amy Edwards, ‘1000 year swim comes to Stoke‘, BBC Stoke and Staffordshire website, 21 August 2008. Includes interview with BBC Radio Stoke’s Breakfast Show presenter Pete Morgan (4mins 42 seconds).
St Luke’s Pool, Brighton
- ‘Historian swims to save baths’, BBC South Today news report, 20 August 2008 (video 1min 30 seconds).
Health Hydro, Swindon
- Emma Streatfield, ‘He is going to great lengths‘, Swindon Advertiser, 28 August 2008.
- James Wallin, ‘Taking the plunge in the name of history‘, Swindon Advertiser, 26 August 2008.
Snippets
- ‘1,000 year swim to save our pools’, Country Life, 6 August 2008, p. 28.
- Boots, ‘Bathing machine‘, Building Design, 29 August 2008.
- Boots, ‘Marathon Man‘, Building Design, 25 July 2008.
- ‘Peter Allen, ‘Plight of old pools is put into the spotlight’, West Midlands Express and Star, 25 July 2008. Also Dudley Express and Star.
- ‘Historian’s swim over listed pools’, Shropshire Star, 25 July 2008.
- ‘I’m making a splash in a noble cause’, Liverpool Daily Post, 25 July 2008.
- ‘If I pool the world’, Bournemouth Daily Echo, 25 July 2008.
- ‘Pool challenge’, Hartlepool Mail, 26 July 2008.
- ‘Strange – but true: In the swim’, South Shields Gazette, 26 July 2008.
