PEOPLE'S CONSULTATION ABOUT Haggerston Pool WEDNESDAY 18th JANUARY At the VLC (next to Haggerston Pool) on Whiston Road on Wednesday January 18th in the evening 5.30pm- 8.30pm

Local pool-campaigners have organised a People's Consultation about the future of Haggerston Pool. Hackney Council have made moves towards looking at how the pool can be re-opened. Please come along to help us demonstrate the level of support for the re-opening of the pool.

Speakers:

• KATE HOEY (ex-Labour Govt Sports Minister and ex Hackney resident and councillor),
• KIM WRIGHT (Hackney Council Director of Community and Leisure),
• ELAINE BARRETT (paralympic gold medal winning swimmer - who trained in Haggerston Pool when it was open)
• MIKE COYSH (Haggerston Pool Community Trust),
• JIM ARMSTRONG (Laburnum Boat Club)
• PATRICIA GRIFFIN (Primary Care Trust),
• PHILIP POOLE (Met Police),
• SUSAN STORRAR (Hackney Independent Living Team)
• PLUS a showing of "THE PEOPLE'S VOICE", a short film with members of the community making their case for the re-opening of the baths and their pleas to the council to take action.

(Via hackneycommunitynews at Yahoo! Groups PEOPLE'S CONSULTATION ABOUT HAGGERSTON POOL WEDS 18th JANUARY: .)

| Haggerston | 16 January 2006; 1:40:16 AM |# | | Discuss |

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Black Park is in Slough Bucks.  A year long campaign has been waged to save swimming in the lake - which has been 'London's beach' for 70 years. 
 
Last April Bucks CC  banned swimming, wading & paddling.  Suddenly the park was full of no swimming signs "DANGER HEALTH & SAFETY  RISK " and the children's paddling beach fenced off.
 
On the 1st June swimmers are meeting to protest at the ban. More info from Michelle Little - michelle.little@btinternet.com.  Website www.freeblackpark.co.uk.

Here's a picture of the last wet t-shirt protest......

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Lots more information about Black Park and swimming in lakes and rivers throughout Britain on the River and Lake Swimming Association website www.river-swimming.co.uk - thanks to them for use of the pictures.

| Haggerston | 29 May 2003; 6:04:06 PM |# | | Discuss |

{pictureRef (, border:1, align:left, width:220, height:150)}Fifty Haggerston residents and ex-swimmers protested at the pool's closure on March 18th to mark 100 years since the foundation stone was laid.

Thanks to James Emmett from the Hackney Gazette for the photo.

| Haggerston | 29 May 2003; 6:01:17 PM |# | | Discuss |