Henlow had a good pool

RAF Mount Pleasant had one last time I was down there.
RAF Honnington has one too.
RAF Akrotiri still has one.

RAF Khormaksar Officers' Club pool at Tarshyne beach gave safe haven from the sharks. Feel the heat!

(Photo from the RAF Khormaksar thread. Not mine)



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Not wholly an RAF Camp but I remember Deci had a nice outdoor pool

I lived in the Kinloss south side singly blocks 1984/5 and I don't remember a pool. Mind you, I didn't realise there was a gym on site!

I recall two Cranwell pools. There was one down near the airfield, linked to a gym when I arrived in 1960. By the time I left, we were using the new one.
Looking on Google earth, I see that the South Brick Lines have gone. I would have thought they might have preserved one of those huts, to show later generations what luxury the junior entry enjoyed.

Wattisham most definitely had one, just right outside the NAAFI block (where the chip machine was)

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A few memory chips fading hereabouts...only to be expected given the demographic I suppose :)

I was at Kinloss on and off from 77 to 03 and the wee pool (next to the gym) was open, functional and extremely well-used throughout. Some famous swimmer (Goodhew? Wilkie?) did an exhibition swim in it once. As I recall, if you volunteered for lifeguard, you got out of some station duties.

St Mawgan had no pool but had early morning time slots reserved at Newquay (indoor and outdoor) which was near Newquay zoo. I well remember swimming in the outdoor pool very early morning listening to the zoo's resident lion roaring. Mountbatten had no pool, so the survival school used the one at RNAS Culdrose (which I recall being a proper size) for its many drills.

Masirah had one. I remember a particularly blood thirsty water polo match, aircrew vs groundcrew, during a Vulcan detachment 1969.

Lesson Learned
 

RAF Henlow had one as I learned when I did my IOT there in 74. We all had to prove we could swim one length, Having swum at County level before joining, I took a racing dive into the pool and powered down to the end. My showing-off was seen by the PTI who told me to keep on back and forth until the entire sqn had attempted their one length. Lesson was rapidly learned as I climbed exhausted from the pool at the end.

FW

Oberon
 

Masirah still has one. Probably the same one you used. It’s not RAF though. It’s RAFO!

BV

I recall swimming there in 1973 while staging through. Because there were no women allowed on station, swimming trunks were optional. Not a pretty sight.

Yeovilton had/has 2. One of them is very deep but it's awfully difficult to do lengths when some inconsiderate chap insists on dropping mock helicopters into to it.

Also saw my first ever blue movies in the Buff Lodge down there. A Sick Quarters Sgt. was I/C projector.

Airport Camp Belize had one, again provided under the auspices of an EWS, or so local folk-law had it

Abingdon had an outdoor pool in the 70s. Remember midnight swimming in 1975 with a couple of hardy people. After a visit to the bar of course

If you want a deep pool, try the one at Fort Blockhouse, Gosport, formerly HMS Dolphin. The widths are short but it is 100ft deep. I did the obligatory 2x30ft, 1x60ft and 1x100ft runs through it. Heady stuff at the time.

Deano,

What a surprise. 48 Sqn Association Sec' was trying to contact you earlier this year. I said that I could try to reach you via PPRuNe PM - to no avail. We assumed the worst. Good to see your post!

Brian Wildey

One for the real oldies - Habbaniya had a swimming pool, and a cinema, and a zoo ! ... and a seaplane alighting area and a shopping 'mall' and a hospital ,,, and food poisoning !

RAF Changi Officers Club
 

RAF Changi Officers Club , pool, and hairdressers with a free Indian scalp massage. Sorry no photo.