Burroughs Gardens Baths and Wash House.

[charley chester]

Does anyone know when the baths and wash house closed down, I think the wash house closed first but I am not sure. There is a difference of opinion here but I will say nothing. However I can remember the penny (old money) plunge.

[GeorgePorgie]

Around 1960 wasn't it?

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[charley chester]

Definitely not in the 60's. I left school in 1974 and I remember going to the baths after I left school.

[Ged]

I went to Burroughs Baths in 1976, a gang of us from Gerard Gardens. There was a beetle in the water and it wasn't George Harrison. The wash house had well closed by then though.

[grio]

i used to go to the baths in late fifties used the penny plunge loads of times you alternated with the females with the big baths it wasnt mixed bathing then :shock:

[Pinkie]

I learned to swim there in the late 1970's. My class at St Georges Everton would be taken there once a week for swimming lessons. I remember it was very old fashioned and the water was usually freezing!

[ellergreen]

i used to go to the baths in late fifties used the penny plunge loads of times you alternated with the females with the big baths it wasnt mixed bathing then :shock:

Yes, my school always went there.
It was a race to to get changed first and be the one to "break the jelly"
I envied my big brother 'cos he got to swim in the "scalldies" running alongside Tate&Lyle.