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Swimming Pool - Murton (murt0241)

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Photograph, taken from above, of a swimming pool with rows of terraced houses. hills and the pylons of the aerial ropeway, in the distance; the pool has a fence round it and low buildings on the left, presumably changing rooms; the pool is full of swimmers; the pool has been identified as being in Murton

Swimming Pool - Murton

Photograph, taken from above, of a swimming pool with rows of terraced houses. hills and the pylons of the aerial ropeway, in the distance; the pool has a fence round it and low buildings on the left, presumably changing rooms; the pool is full of swimmers; the pool has been identified as being in Murton

Date: 1960 - 1969


i lived in dene terrace(far centre top of picture) the pylons to the left were for high tension cables. the ceramic insulators were called "dingers" by we local kids,after the noise they made when hit with an airgun pellet !!! the aerial ropeway would have been well to the right ,out of shot

Comment added by Tom Vardy on 06/01/2009 13:19:00

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