Camden New Journal - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Published: 6 September 2007
What’s in a name?
• NEWS of “leisure chiefs” decision (No unisex please we’re changing, August 30) to listen to the public and retreat from unisex changing spaces proposals for the “Victorian baths in Prince of Wales Road, Kentish Town” is to be commended. However, the same leisure bosses might like to cease calling the place The Kentish Town Sports Centre and such-like wishy-washy names.
Locally we already have The Talacre Community Sports Centre.
On the clutch of brand new (2007) pedestrian signs “Kentish Town Baths” is writ large.
In a straw poll I found that those who called the place The Kentish Town Baths had only to compete with some who called them the Prince of Wales Baths or the The Kentish Town Pools. Nobody recognised the aberration of its recently acquired name.
After a vigorous campaign to save the pools can we not also retain an aquatic title for the place.
George Orwell may have swum there regularly but that does not justify a 1984 designation for the noble place. PETER CUMING
Talacre Road, NW5
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