The old drying room, seven to nine
The covered pool
Forty sets of boots used to dry in here. The windows are the ones they dried under.
The drying room was the largest space in the building and the one with the most glass, because wet gear needs light and air more than people do. When the crews stopped coming, the room had no job. It took until 1996 for somebody to point out that a big glazed room with a drain in the floor was most of a pool already.
The smell of cedar
The roof structure is cedar and it was never sealed. When the heating comes on in the morning the room smells of it for about an hour. Guests mention this more than they mention the pool.
- Open seven in the morning to nine at night
- Fourteen metres, shallow at the yard end
- Towels on the rail, not in your room
- No lifeguard, and the depth is marked on the tiles
The window catches
The long windows still have the original catches, which are stiff and which we have been told repeatedly to replace. They open about a hand's width and that is enough. If the room is warm and close, open two and leave the rest.
Play happens in one room of this building and nowhere else. No bets are taken online, no accounts are held, and no money moves through this site.