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A pool of confusion
• As Secretary of the London Schools’ Swimming
association and a member of the London Pools Campaign as well
as being a lifelong resident of Kentish Town, I am grateful
for the decision to keep the baths intact and carry out the
relevant, necessary repairs to improve the existing facilities
for future years.
I have featured heavily in the campaign to keep the baths
as they are, not on behalf of any political interest but purely
as one who is passionate about safeguarding what we have got.
I believe swimming pools are great equalisers for young and
old, ill and healthy, large and small, nervous and confident
and should provide adequate facilities for all.
I also believe that tomorrow’s champions are in our schools
today and provision should be available for every child in every
London school.
I would feel happier about the decision if the teaching pool
could be saved for it is here that the learning process begins.
I was taught at Kentish Town Baths and went on to have a great
career as a champion swimmer.
I have a lot to be grateful for.
Brenda Humphreys
(Secretary of London Schools’ Swimming Association)
• I’m confused: if there was never any question
of Kentish Town baths being closed down why were alternative
venues for the baths apparently actively being discussed?
Why if it was always a done deal did the decision to refurbish
the baths “have everything to do with our Labour-run council
listening to local people”. And why given this non-existent
threat did worries about putting “an unjustified burden
on council taxpayers” ever enter into the equation?
Could it be that the closure was one of the options that came
under consideration and that the Executive backed away from
this idea in face of the public furore that followed during
what is an Election Year?
Rex Warrick
Priory Road, NW6
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