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Camden New Journal - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 23 August 2007

Suit you?

• KATHY Reid’s letter (Design for a costume drama, August 16) struck a chord.
She predicted that an open plan situation at the Kentish Town baths will lead to the managers of the newly refurbished baths imposing a rule that swimming suits must be worn in the showers to overcome a problem the architects have engineered. This tallies with my own experience.
My father lives in Camden and I am now at university in Edinburgh. Recently I visited Warrender public baths, a refurbished Victorian swimming pool in Edinburgh. They had an open plan situation with changing cubicles for both sexes surrounding the pool. They also had a crazy rule that swimming suits had to be worn in the showers. It was a real embarrassment trying to wash properly with a swimming suit on. It just did not work. Much as I appreciate the architectural beauty of the Warrender baths, I have no intention of ever returning to swim there. These are busy times. People do not have the luxury of getting up early for a swim and then go back home to have a bath or shower before heading for work. There just are not enough hours in the day. So, it is really important for the providers of swimming facilities to understand the needs of their customers and adapt to the hectic demands of the 21st century on them rather than the other way around.
JOHN ANDERSON,
Bruntsfield, Edinburgh EH10

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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