Tynemouth Outside Pool

[jimmyosram]

Thank you for your comments - It's always interesting how HDR creates such a divide in opinion and all are welcome.

FYI here is a link to a flickr photo of the pool when it was in it's prime (1970's). I've permission form the original photographer to post it here, but I thought I would just link it instead.

[pburness]

Originally Posted by jimmyosram

Thank you for your comments - It's always interesting how HDR creates such a divide in opinion and all are welcome.

FYI here is a link to a flickr photo of the pool when it was in it's prime (1970's). I've permission form the original photographer to post it here, but I thought I would just link it instead.

That must have been 1976 because it was sunny that year

Phil

[nick_gray]

Thanks for the link Jimmy, although I never remember it looking like that, it was pretty much how it was in your photo and I left the North East in '75 when my parents moved south. I really should get back up there again. I understand that some of the coal slag heaps have been covered up with grass now :-)

Phil,
According to Wikipedia '"Dire Straits songwriter Mark Knopfler said in a television interview that The Spanish City held special significance to him as the first place he ever heard Rock 'n' Roll played "really loud"'

Also from Wikipedia: He was born in Glasgow, but spent his childhood in Blyth (just along the coast from Whitley Bay).

Nick

[DigiDiva]

Forlorn...YES, you have summed it up perfectly, love it.

[nick_gray]

Ah ha,

The pool was opened in 1925- http://www.tynemouth.frankgillings.c...ges/pool03.jpg it was still a pool in 1971 http://www.tynemouth.frankgillings.c...ne%20tees.html at least. In 1996 it was converted into Tynemouth Rock Pool http://www.tynemouth.frankgillings.com/rockpool.htm - probably after us kids threw so many rocks into it :-).

Nick

[DigiDiva]

I love the old pictures. Can't ever remember this but my hubby can, he thinks he swam there once. Northumberland was a long way from Sunderland in those days....lol