Budding diver saddened by planned closure of Scartho Baths
OLYMPIC inspiration could be crushed for this 11-year-old boy due to the planned closure of Scartho Baths.
As reported, the pool in Scartho Road will close in about two years' time and a new facility will be built as part of a £7.5-million project at Grimsby Leisure Centre, featuring a 25-metre pool and a new gym.
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WATER BLOW: Keegan Camburn, 11, may have to give up diving when Scartho pool closes, in Grimsby.
However, the new Cromwell Road site will not have a steam room, sauna or diving board facilities – much to the disappointment of one young athlete.
Cleethorpes Academy student Keegan Camburn enjoyed watching Tom Daley diving so much in this summer's Olympic Games he recently started the sport himself.
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He said: "I have been reading Tom Daley's autobiography and watching him on TV and it has really inspired me to get into diving.
"I have only been doing it for the last five weeks but I love it.
"The first time I jumped off the top diving board was awesome.
"I am upset that the pool is closing and it is a big mistake to build a new one without diving facilities.
"It does make me sad thinking about having to stop diving.
"All I want to do is improve but I won't be able to do that.
"I have made a lot of friends at Scartho Baths and they don't want it closed either because there is nowhere else in the area to go diving.
"I just don't want it to close."
Many parents get great pleasure from seeing their children take part in the sport at the swimming pool.
Keegan's dad Rich James, 30 of James Street, Grimsby, added: "When I told Keegan the pool was going to be shutting he was gutted.
"It really is a crying shame because I used to come here as a child and it is a great facility.
"It is good to see young kids doing something they enjoy.
"There doesn't seem to have been any thought put into the future of the facility and how it could be used.
"The council should spend the money on doing up the existing pool that is still always really busy.
"I feel sorry for the kids that will have to stop diving in the area."
Comments
by MalcomsMate
Saturday, October 06 2012, 11:08AM
“This should not be allowed to fade from the front page.”
by hmm_mmm
Thursday, September 27 2012, 7:33AM
“Why, when we live in a democracy with elected representatives do some think that they have to be personally addressed and DEMAND answers to their own questions.
Let those elected get on with doing what we elected them to do instead of wasting time on keyboard warriors who would never be elected under any circumstance.
"……..and urges that this closure be reconsidered and the council helped to develop a bigger and better swimming centre which can provide better swimming training for the south bank of the Humber whose nearest 50-metre pool is in Sheffield.
Alan Barratt - Save Scartho Baths Group member"
Who is Alan and we haven't seen his picture yet or the group. Does he live by that tree that money grows on?
Harvest the tree Alan because central government have announced more cutbacks on the less well off and yet THE BATHS GROUP CALL FOR THE COUNCIL TO BE HELPED TO DEVELOP A BIGGER AND BETTER SWIMMING CENTRE. Many are going to need help to eat and/or heat this winter Alun.
Stuff and nonsense.”
by Grimlander
Thursday, September 27 2012, 6:58AM
“As Alan Barrratt's POSITIVE, APOLITICAL briefing has got lost in the political ranting and NEGATIVE whittering of the lost-wheel whiner here it is again:
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1. We are seeking this administration to undertake an open and transparent process.
2. We have asked to see the cost estimate of refurbishment
3. We have asked to see the cost estimate of a re-build
4. We have asked to see the socio-demographic footprint of the proposal, of refurbishment and or re-build.
If you want to meet me face-to-face and discuss this then feel free to join us on Friday at the Town Hall, 17.00 hrs. Oh and you will get that all important picture that appears to be bothering you.
Alan Barratt (Full name) www dot save Scartho Baths dot com
not hiding behind Hummmm
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[or pike_head or wotteva the name-of-the-day is; probably still b_roo_doodoo, as the wheel's come off].
Dam' right your ult. political rant posted correctly. We can see that. We know it by rote.
So why do YOU post it over and over and over and over again???
Methinks it IS that one of your vaunted wheels fell off that axle of yours and you wander round in circles blindly doing the last thing you thought of, weeks ago. WE know it posted 'correctly' because we're sick of the dam' sight of it.
Bi-bi chaps. No point in returning here. We get more than enough ConDemnation EVERYWHERE from the troll by any other name that fits. Twelve others, is it not? [or pike_head or wotteva the name-of-the-day is; probably still b_roo_doodoo, as the wheel's come off]. Or are we economizing in these dire times? It's notable that all the pro Scartho Baths posting are now rated minus four -- and all anti-coalition rants are rated plus four, bar the most recent. Funny-funny??”
by b_racuda
Wednesday, September 26 2012, 11:24PM
“Challenge this that the ConDems are doing:
"MORE than 10,000 people in North East Lincolnshire will receive 24 per cent less in benefits to pay their council tax bills.
This is the situation facing residents as the council is forced to find ways to cover a £1.6 million cut to cash from the Government."
Shut the baths, sell off the land because according to that cutback above 10,000+ people won't be able to afford to swim.
Let's have a Petition against the Condem's cutbacks
Nope, it posts correctly.”
by Grimlander
Wednesday, September 26 2012, 10:00PM
“Sorry chaps, not me guv, them, guv -- There's summat up wi' Telegraph's system. We get:
**"Sorry, failed to add comment : LP.extendObject(LP.extendObject({}, s), F).t is not a function."**
...and then we get two or more of the same post when we return. Not me guv, them, guv. Doggit! I'm sounding like a councillor!”
by Grimlander
Wednesday, September 26 2012, 9:49PM
“**ErnieBrown - Wed, Sep 26, 2012, 7:33AM**
**But b_racuda, we're not and never have been asking for a shiny new, very expensive pool...just for the current Great Grimsby Swimming Pool to be refurbished. This should have been happening as a matter of course over the last few decades and would ultimately have saved NELC many millions of £'s.**
Not only that, Ernie, significant tho' it is -- visitors to the Baths are on the wide-open space of Barrett's Field:
something that people absorb without realizing it. Even in Grimland -- Hah! ESPECIALLY in the wasteland of Grimland -- people are unconsciously deprived of their rightful contact with green-field environments. even a few minutes among the almost regimented trees arounf the Baths building is a tonic.
Think on these things, NE£incs councillors and your minions -- especially those of you who can't even use an apostrophe and spell Barrett's correctly on your boards proclaiming YOUR "BarrATTS Recreation Ground" when in fact, it's all OURS!!”
by Grimlander
Wednesday, September 26 2012, 9:48PM
“**ErnieBrown - Wed, Sep 26, 2012, 7:33AM**
**But b_racuda, we're not and never have been asking for a shiny new, very expensive pool...just for the current Great Grimsby Swimming Pool to be refurbished. This should have been happening as a matter of course over the last few decades and would ultimately have saved NELC many millions of £'s.**
Not only that, Ernie, significant tho' it is -- visitors to the Baths are on the wide-open space of Barrett's Field:
something that people absorb without realizing it. Even in Grimland -- Hah! ESPECIALLY in the wasteland of Grimland -- people are unconsciously deprived of their rightful contact with green-field environments. even a few minutes among the almost regimented trees arounf the Baths building is a tonic.
Think on these things, NE£incs councillors and your minions -- especially those of you who can't even use an apostrophe and spell Barrett's correctly on your boards proclaiming YOUR "BarrATTS Recreation Ground" when in fact, it's all OURS!!”
by b_racuda
Wednesday, September 26 2012, 8:00AM
“Challenge this that the ConDems are doing:
"MORE than 10,000 people in North East Lincolnshire will receive 24 per cent less in benefits to pay their council tax bills.
This is the situation facing residents as the council is forced to find ways to cover a £1.6 million cut to cash from the Government."
Shut the baths, sell off the land because according to that cutback above 10,000+ people won't be able to afford to swim.
Let's have a Petition against the Condem's cutbacks!”
by Grimlander
Wednesday, September 26 2012, 7:42AM
“Wednesday, September 26 2012, 7:02AM
"Sorry...
Sorry, failed to add comment : LP.extendObject(LP.extendObject({}, s), F).t is not a function"
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Nothing different in the submission -- just plain u/l txt, but then we know that asystems don't work.
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PS: "DIATRIBE: a continuous haranguing invective" -- W. & R. Chambers, of major dictionary fame.”
by ErnieBrown
Wednesday, September 26 2012, 7:33AM
“But b_racuda, we're not and never have been asking for a shiny new, very expensive pool...just for the current Great Grimsby Swimming Pool to be refurbished. This should have been happening as a matter of course over the last few decades and would ultimately have saved NELC many millions of £'s. NELC would then not need to be proposing to deprive thousands of people who live in that area of town, of much needed health facilities.
For a young family with a couple of kids, to travel from Sutcliffe Ave to the site of the proposed new smaller play pool and back , would take four bus journeys and would more than double the cost of taking the young 'uns for a swim.”