BV,
BV, your too young to say that. You have to at least be a "Cold War Warrior" to make such inflammatory comments!

Dominator
 

Haha. Got it. Although as a former Jaguar pilot surely I’m almost an honorary Cold War Warrior?

BV

W
 

Well b*gger me, all those years I was there and I never knew, if I had I would have been a frequent user.

Can things on the internet lie? It's on Google Earth too.

Wittering pool was an open air one on the sports field near to the staish's house. When it was filled in there was a bit of trouble as it had been provided by the Malcolm Clubs I believe.

Sorry with my facetious hat on, I am unclear what aviation link the original Q has. To get back to present tense though Honington, as the Home of RAF FP, has a superb indoor pool but its opening hours are a little narrow. Much better than the grotty pool it had in the 80s when the roof let more water in over the winter than the small pool could actually hold ;)

I was at Wyton 1970-75, no swimming pool there.
If there was one it was in officers only country!

what?

There was a well established pool at RAF Wyton in 1976, -turn right (or left if coming from camp) at the guardroom ,across the green from the officers' mess right next to the main road. I swam my RAF swim proficiency ther in Aug 1976. It was still there in 1991-1995.

I think my head still aches from going through the dunker drills there back in 1975.

yep, all on its own next to the running track. Perfect for skinny dipping late at night in the summer, happy days in the early 70s. ( Comcen girls where are you 😉 )

RNZAF Ohakea had one: happy days skinny dipping there in '73!

It was still in use by the RAF in 2004/5 when I was there and the building is still standing, although not sure what the Army have done to it now!

Can't see any mention of Lyneham's pool, if memory serves it was near the airmen mess & bowling alley it had a reasonable height diving board too. Scared myself witless having decided to try the high board - only did that once!!

The pool at BZN was near the Spotlight Club and the then singly accommodation.

Maybe we should work out how many pools still have an RAF station 😊

Mog

Littlewoods and Vernons had good pools!

It was there near the cadet's MQs when I did summer camp in '87; where did it go?

I'm afraid the Old Workshops that housed the Halton pool were declared unsafe around 2016ish. It has been shut ever since. Technically it does still have a pool but you can't use it...

In the summer of ’67, just a few minutes after leaping into the deep end of RAF Khormaksar’s very nice outdoor pool near the Shackleton pan, the peace was shattered by a terrorist bomb exploding on an empty Aden Airways Vickers Viscount airliner parked further down the pans. An unexpected, shocking and unpleasant event although most of us bathers had become accustomed throughout that year to the many unfriendly actions of the local Arab NLF and FLOSY brigades. As far as I remember, no one in the pool was injured but the poor old Viscount was a total wreck.