LEEDS INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING POOL DEMOLITION * WWW.BRADLEY.TV

Filming this made me sad. As a kid in the late 70's and early 80's I often used to travel down to Leeds International Pool from Newcastle to compete in various competitions. I loved the place and have lots of great memories of this iconic building. Yesterday I drove past and saw it being demolished. I felt compelled to stop and shoot some footage. Somewhere at home I have a photo of me winning a race and being presented with a medal then looking up and seeing my name on the scoreboard! I remember diving of the top diving board during warm up time trying to impress girls, hanging out with mates on the runway thinking we were cool, sitting high up in the stands listening to the top 40 on a cheap walkman and meeting swimmers like Duncan Goodhew, Adrian Moorhouse, Sharon Davies and Mark Foster. Happy days. Nick Bradley.

There is an online photo gallery of loads of images of the building. You can upload your own photos there too. Here is the link: http://gallery.me.com/bradleydotcom#100075

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• Leeds 50M Swimming Pool
• Leeds Swimming Club
• Pool Demolition
• Swimming Gala Leeds
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• film production leeds
• adrian moorehouse
• mark foster
• sharon davies
• duncan goodhew

[ironsidefan]

It is not an operable link the way YouTube's system is set up on iPhones--it is not highlighted and underlined in blue or clickable.

[bradleydottv]

@ironsidefan just copy and paste it into safari

[ironsidefan]

bradleydottv: That gallery.me.com link you supplied does not turn up in a google search when I look for it via my iPhone 4 which unfortunately, is the only way I can find through that device as how I can go to links. Would love to have looked at all those photos you referenced could be found there, but no dice for me I guess!

[bradleydottv]

@ironsidefan just click the link

[ironsidefan]

(continued from previous comment) ied to those videos as well!!!

[ironsidefan]

(continued from previous comment) ble! In addition, about eight months ago, without any notification whatsoever that I could find in retrospect they intentionally changed the default settings for video submissions so that iPhone, Droid, and other smart phone users are automatically blocked from being able to watch them. The other equally reprehensible aspect of that change is that when submitters renew their existing videos the new defaults blocking iPhone, Droid, et al are automatically appl

[ironsidefan]

Unfortunately, the way Safari is set up on the iPhone you do all your searching through either Google or Yahoo only--there is no Safari search field to paste links into, and YouTube has their system for iPhone set up so you cannot copy anything to paste it elsewhere like even Google's or Yahoo's search field's. They have some really stupid, irresponsible people running Google, which own YouTube--their servers must have been around when dinosaurs were still roaming the earth, they're so unrelia

[dolphtrains2]

gutted that this got demolished. it was a stunning building and thoroughly impressive pool

[MALLORCAMAN33]

Sad and eerie at the same time ! I swam in a few national champs there, in the late 70s !

[desertswimmer87]

What Camera are you using?