Comments for Holywell Mead Pool

Comment on Student Film Project by Harry

Harry — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:43:46 +0000

We are actually university students, and this is a news story for our news show to go towards our degree. Thanks for the mention! The VT turned out well!

Comment on Photo Gallery by Holywell Mead Pool » Message from our Group

Holywell Mead Pool » Message from our Group — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:08:23 +0000

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Comment on Message from our Group by lydia poole

lydia poole — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:38:48 +0000

I think you should keep up the pressure and do keep publicising what the group is doing. Thanks to the group and particularly the Chair Neil Bailey for what has been acheived to date.

Comment on Public Meeting 13th October 2009 by Sue Cavalier

Sue Cavalier — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:14:29 +0000

I support your project, an open air pool is an important asset to any town. The committe have put a great deal of time and effort into the project so far but the meeting last night confirmed that all proposals from the committe have been rejected as not viable by the council & the council now intend to move on to make it another leisure project which is still be explored.
The reality seems to be that time is short and you don’t yet have enough expertise of your committe to deliver what the council needs. I can only think you have to make a huge last ditch attempt to get that expertise, make noise in the press etc ,surely wycombe has enough talent to pull a viable business plan together to take the swimming pool off the council. If you can’t make enough noise to unite the talent of Wycombe then the project seems to be lost. Good Luck

Comment on Public Meeting 13th October 2009 by Ed Silvester

Ed Silvester — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:25:44 +0000

I have just returned from tonight’s meeting. I was encouraged by the huge turnout. Well done for the stirling work you have done so far.
Clearly the council are not best equipped to judge the merits of your business plan, seeing as they have not been able to run the pool successfully on their own. Yet again, the council members were unable to justify their actions convincingly.

Comment on Public Meeting 13th October 2009 by myra barratt

myra barratt — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:11:33 +0000

I was able to take advantage of this pool from the day it was opened untuil I left Wycombe in 2000 I urge the Council to retain this unique smimming pool to promote healthy outdoor excercise. If it were marketed and advertised WITH CONVICTION this pool would have a great future….. Please think again Council……

Comment on Public Meeting 13th October 2009 by lydia poole

lydia poole — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:36:50 +0000

This is the chance for all supporters to stand up and be counted before it is too late! The pool would ususally be closed at this time of year and there is no reason why it should not re-open next Easter for the school holidays. Many people I speak to were unaware that Wycombe even had an open air pool so the profile it has had would enhance numbers.
We must make sure that 100s attend this meeting to say loud and clear :-
‘WE WANT OUR SWIMMING POOL OPEN AGAIN NEXT YEAR -NO EXCUSES!’

Comment on Fern offers support by lydia poole

lydia poole — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:20:22 +0000

It is good to have Fern endorse the campaign. She is a local person so understands the urgency of maintaining this valuable resource for all. Fern’s emphasis on young people is good as they need this sort of healthy activity where they can meet friends and share an activity.

Comment on Welcome to our newly launched website. by Emma Clark

Emma Clark — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:03:02 +0000

Until I heard about this site I thought that the pool was gone for good and that there was no hope of a possible re-opening.
I learnt to swim in this pool and used it through out my childhood. Spending many wonderful summer’s swimming there with family and friends. My daughter was most dissapionted that she can no longer use it. Every time we walk around the Rye she ask’s me if we can have one more swim? So it’s loss is felt by young and old.
Just a little modernisation and it could once again be as packed as it always was. Well done for putting this information out there and all your hard work. Fingers crossed for re-opening the pool.

Comment on Welcome to our newly launched website. by Andrew Montgomery

Andrew Montgomery — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:29:43 +0000

Nice to see some presents for the pool on the internet as the local council appear to have removed all knowledge, it would be nice to find a page on wycombe.gov.uk that just advises that the pool is closed with a link available to send people to this site.

On a sad note….. This lovely hot weather in Maidenhead and I wanted to take the family to the Holywellmead Pool today. Never mind my kids will just have to play with the watering can in the garden…. All the money that the government wastes and we can’t even keep a local Lido open…

Sad.