Random thought that just popped into my head about Grange Hill

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How come 1980s Grange Hill the school had its own swimming pool?

Is this a thing London schools had in the 80s???

My state comprehensive had one (SW England).

One local state comprehensive had a swimming pool in 2019, because ds had lessons in it. I assume it's still used. A couple of the state primaries have outside ones round here too, which they use in the summer term.

My secondary school had a pool. 90s

DH's 80s primary school had a pool too.

Both pools demolished now

Is that in a town beginning with W?

That's nothing, we had our own ping-pong table.

Edinburgh, was at school in 80s and early 90s. Quite a few schools, primary and secondary had pools. I swam in a club and visited various school pools, the Royal Blind School was the best and had proper starting blocks.

I'm just outside of London and a couple of middle/ junior schools had pools (they don't have them now).

My (state) primary school didn't have one and I don't know of any other primary schools in north Bristol that had one. We used the council baths.
DSIS went to a state secondary and her school had its own, with the council baths about a mile away. I went to a private school. It didn't have a pool but used the students Union on at Bristol University.

My secondary school had an indoor pool in the 80s, and it still does now. It's a small, rural state school.

My teeny tiny village primary school (think fewer than 50 kids in the entire school) had its own outdoor swimming pool in the 70s and 80s. It’s unbelievable now. School almost got closed several times, pool never did. School is still going but I think the pool went in the 90s.

Went to school in Glasgow in the 70s and early 80s. Both secondary schools in the area had swimming pools. Mainly council house areas.

One of our local state secondary schools (South Yorkshire) has an indoor pool on the grounds. It's used by the school but also for private swimming lessons, sessions and by other primary schools for their ks2 swim lessons,

I taught at a secondary school in Derbyshire and that had an outdoor pool. It was used for an annual swimming gala, and I assume some pe lessons. It was coLd though!

There is a local primary private school nearby with its own indoor pool. You can have private children's swimming lessons there in a weekend I believe. During the week it's mainly used by the school itself though.

My school didn't have one but one school in our town did and all primary schools had swimming lessons there.

I was at secondary in the 80s, and my school, built in the late 70s had an indoor heated pool.
Most of the secondaries in my Scottish town had indoor heated pools

I’m in West Lothian

Yep, my older children's school had a pool.

It got demolished when they rebuilt the school in 2020.

DS's school (comp in small town in West Yorkshire) has an indoor pool. It's an income generator as is hired out after school & at weekends to swimming classes. I'm informed that water polo in year 10 was carnage...

non london two of the secondaries had their own pools, one olympic sized the other half sized. All the local schools used them.

DC’s state primary in Yorkshire has a pool. My comprehensive in the SE had a pool and still does - think it’s nicer now as when I was there it had two plaques on the wall commemorating two pupils that had drowned in it.

I went to a private school without a pool, we walked to the catholic school next door to use their pool. 1980’s. It was a really grim pool, lots of concrete with urine on it. Although I did learn to swim there.

No, small town beginning with D

I went to a state comp near Grange Hill in the 80s. It had a pool but it was tiny and decades old, so was only used for sports day races, not for regular swimming lessons.

Midlands 2000's high school had its own pool and still does.
Not that uncommon in our area.

Both my middle and secondary schools had pools in the 80s and early 90s

Mine did in Notts in the 70s. My Dad knew the Caretaker so I used to get sneaked in on a Sunday too!