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Highbury Pool
A little out of the area, but does anyone know if/when Highbury pool is likely to open again?
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Our kids swimming lessons cancelled for the foreseeable future.
This is the Gazette report http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/highbury-leisure-centre-fire-caused-by-workers-1-5712704
Wow, guess i'll be looking for a new pool for the foreseeable future. Is there one in Crouch end?
Park Road - pretty decent lane swimming, and if you've got v young children, there's a nice separate small shallow pool that's still big enough to accommodate a fair few people comfortably. Also got a small-ish but reasonable soft play area, so a good spot if you've got kids up to 5 years old.
Archway - The layout of the pool makes it great for family fun sessions (slide, wave machine, etc) but its not a great pool for lane swimming due to the odd layout. Changing facilities not great and water sometimes feels bit cold.
Caledonian (Cally) pool: Its an ugly looking building from the outside but has a pretty decent 25 metre pool for lane swimming that normally doesn't get too crazy busy, though does appear to have more people there now that Highbury is closed. The family/kids pool is nothing special though - inferior to Archway in that respect.
Bit further afield still - Kentish Town, several individual pools in different areas of beautifully restored building. Seems a good all rounder with good lane swimming provision plus couple of smaller pools including a small shallow one that's great for babies and toddlers. Only drawback I found in this place though is that although the water temperature is fine the temperature of the changing rooms and corridors is pretty chilly.
Clissold would be another one not too far for Stroud-Greeners but never been to that one.
Staff was always quite rude and the hygiene level was beyond shocking. Never ever in my life have I been in a dirtier pool. Sometimes the changing rooms would reek nasty and there was a lot of sand and stuff in the water...
All this for not exactly the most competitive price.
Anyway yes, there's another one in Archway, at the leisure center behind the tube station.
Highbury Pool was always a very utilitarian bit of anti-architecture that was poorly looked after - but it had the benefit of being easy to get to and opening later at weekends - than all other pools.
I guess the pile of maintenance issues with the pool will now have to get sorted out in the rebuild - particularly the continual silt at the bottom of the pool.