Coming Home From Bacup Baths
I remember as a kid spending many hours in Bacup Baths. The little bath and the big bath. The coal covered colliers scrubbing each others backs in the showers. I remember swimming for bacup during the 50s. Swimmers names like Marshall, Woodcock, Gee, Thomas, Andrews. I would play TIG in the baths with other lads. Then hungry I would spend a penny (my bus fair) on a small loaf from a bread shop across from the baths on Rochdale Road. Then instead of catching the bus home to stacksteads I would have to walk home. The photo is the first site I got as I made my decision to buy a small loaf or ride home hungry on the bus.
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RE: RE: Coming Home From Bacup Baths
I have been doing some family tree research and my grandmother came from stacksteads. Her cousin was a famous swimmer from there. He was David Billington. His parents worked at Bacup Baths where he practised. He went on to swim in Australia and to teach swimming in Canada. He returned to Lancashire and lived and died in Radcliffe. I was interested to see that the swimming baths continued to give lots of pleasure to you too.
Comment from Susan Walsh on Friday, 13th March 2009.
RE: RE: Coming Home From Bacup Baths
I have been doing some family tree research and my grandmother came from Stacksteads. Her cousin was a famous swimmer from there, he was David Billington. His parents worked at Bacup Baths where he practised. He went on to swim in Australia and to teach swimming in Canada. He returned to Lancashire and lived and died in Radcliffe. I was interested to see that the swimming baths continued to give lots of pleasure to you too.
Comment from Susan Walsh on Friday, 13th March 2009.