How many RAF stations have swimming pools?

[chopper2004]

Just twigged pretty much every USAF / US Army aviation / USN?USMC (obligatory) has swimming pools as part of sports facilities but not every RAF station. One would have thought that be mandatory re fitness especially with the likes of Shawbury and Valley should have?

cheers

[chevvron]

I believe Halton's pool is still operating but probably for not much longer; Witterings is probably still open too.

[charliegolf]

Odiham used to have a pool, but it was in the last century.

CG

[Ninthace]

We did not have one at Bruggen, but we did have an EWS with a blue liner and changing rooms. Halton and Cosford I know had official pools,

[Yellow Sun]

Cranwell, Kinloss, Wyton and Langar had pools, although the RCAF may have built the latter.

YS

[SimonPaddo]

Odiham still had a pool this century

[NutLoose]

Originally Posted by Ninthace

We did not have one at Bruggen, but we did have an EWS with a blue liner and changing rooms. Halton and Cosford I know had official pools,

Are you sure, i though Bruggen had one, just up from 431 MU and along the main fence... It was an open air one.

here you go, top right, follow the row of curved houses to the left where the road splays out and that is the pool?

[downsizer]

Originally Posted by chevvron

I believe Halton's pool is still operating but probably for not much longer; Witterings is probably still open too.

Wittering hasn't had a pool since at least 1994.

Cranwell and Cosford do.

[oldmansquipper]

There are probably now more pools remaining than RAF stations…..

[spekesoftly]

RAF Nicosia had an excellent outdoor swimming pool which was very popular with most personnel, including the CO and his family. On one occasion my wife and I had just arrived and as we were making our way to the changing rooms the CO did a double-take and said to my wife "I'm so sorry, I didn't recognise you with your clothes on!"

[ICATQ]

St Athan had a pool and diving platform. Used mainly to scare the bejesus out of the trainees!

[SimonPaddo]

Can nearby beaches count?

[NutLoose]

Originally Posted by ICATQ

St Athan had a pool and diving platform. Used mainly to scare the bejesus out of the trainees!

And a damned fine one it was.

[Ninthace]

Originally Posted by NutLoose

Are you sure, i though Bruggen had one, just up from 431 MU and along the main fence... It was an open air one.

here you go, top right, follow the row of curved houses to the left where the road splays out and that is the pool?

Trust me, we didn't to the best of my knowledge. As I recall, the Station tried to get a pool built but was denied permission. Long before my time, they got round it by having an EWS tank for the purposes of firefighting. Non public funds were then used to add filtration and changing rooms etc, but on paper, it was an EWS. The pool was kind of on my slop chit as the PEdO was part of my organisation.

[Avionker]

Kinloss had a pool?

Please tell me that was pre ‘92 because I don’t remember one at all.

If it was there between ‘92 and ‘99 then I obviously spent even more time in the Abbey than I thought.

[WE992]

Brize Norton.

[David Thompson]

Binbrook had an open-air pool in 1972 as I used it during air cadet annual camp based at Manby . I don't remember much about the pool but the Lightnings bashing the circuit were great !

[NickB]

Laarbruch had one and very popular it was!

[Yellow Sun]

Originally Posted by Avionker

Kinloss had a pool?

Please tell me that was pre ‘92 because I don’t remember one at all.

If it was there between ‘92 and ‘99 then I obviously spent even more time in the Abbey than I thought.

Kinloss had an indoor pool up until at least 1984. It was on the south side and I think this might be it:

[MPN11]

Tengah, along with many other establishments in Singapore, had one. Indeed, just before the run-down was announced, we were planning one for the Officers Mess in lieu of the underused tennis courts. Oh, the heady days of Empire … “Where shall we swim today, darling?”