{"id":433050,"date":"2020-05-24T00:12:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T07:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=433050"},"modified":"2020-05-24T01:32:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T08:32:19","slug":"my-favourite-pool-swimming-in-the-snow-at-hathersage-open-air-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/my-favourite-pool-swimming-in-the-snow-at-hathersage-open-air-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Favourite Pools: Swimming In The Snow At Hathersage Open Air Pool With Liz Byrnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Favourite Pools. What are yours? As the swimming-less summer of 2020 draws on, the team at <em>Swimming World\u00a0<\/em>will take a look at some of the great pools we love the most, why and what makes them so special. We\u2019d like you to join in the fun and memories with your own suggestions, either by leaving a comment or sending us a picture you took of the venue you\u2019ve chosen along with up to 300 words on why the place is one of your favorites: editorial@swimmingworld.com<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/favourite-pools-craig-lord-on-the-stadio-olimpico-del-nuoto-at-the-foro-italico-in-rome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Craig Lord: Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto at the Foro Italico<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/favourite-pools-north-sydneys-harbourside-glow-a-winner-for-swimmers-of-all-ages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ian Hanson: North Sydney Olympic Pool<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/my-favorite-pools-soaking-up-the-sun-at-irvines-woollett-aquatic-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andy Ross: William Woollett Aquatic Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/favorite-pools-john-lohn-on-the-history-and-aura-of-the-indiana-university-natatorium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Lohn:\u00a0Indiana University Natatorium<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Today:\u00a0Liz Byrnes Goes Swimming In The Snow At Hathersage Open Air Pool <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>My <strong>favourite pool<\/strong> is not one where champions have been made. Where dreams come true or are shattered. Where tickets to the Olympics are punched. And tears \u2013 of joy and sorrow \u2013 flow.<\/p>\n<p>No. My favourite pool is for me the very embodiment of calm. For which the saying \u2018the pool is calling and I must go\u2019 could have been written.<\/p>\n<p>That is Hathersage Open Air Pool in the Peak District, northern England.<\/p>\n<p>Head out of Sheffield \u2013 a city of half a million people built on a once-thriving steel industry but now with a digital and entrepreneurial bent and the home of the <strong>\u2018Full Monty\u2019<\/strong> film, actor <strong>Sean Bean<\/strong> &#8211; also known as Lord Eddard Stark in \u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 \u2013 and a thriving music scene courtesy of <strong>Pulp<\/strong> and the <strong>Arctic Monkeys<\/strong> among many others.<\/p>\n<p>After 11 miles you\u2019ll come to Surprise View \u2013 so-called because after bearing slightly to the right you are greeted by a spectacular, panoramic view to your left over the Hope Valley and the Dark Peak moorland.<\/p>\n<p>Drop down and just before you reach the historic village of Hathersage take a left on\u00a0Oddfellows Road and continue for less than a minute until you see the car park on your right and tennis courts on your left.<\/p>\n<p>And there you are. Once you\u2019ve parked up walk past the courts on your left and then the caf\u00e9 before you come to a blue door.<\/p>\n<p>Up the steep steps and there you are. Once you\u2019ve paid, you\u2019re there and as soon as I take that step every worry, concern or anxiety falls away, the place an oasis of calm.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_433070\" style=\"width: 378px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-433070\" data-attachment-id=\"433070\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/my-favourite-pool-swimming-in-the-snow-at-hathersage-open-air-pool\/20190122_083034\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20190122_083034-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1440\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G920F&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1548145834&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20190122_083034\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;20190122_083034&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20190122_083034-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20190122_083034-1024x576.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-433070\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20190122_083034-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"20190122_083034\" width=\"368\" height=\"263\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-433070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Liz Byrnes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s the simplicity of it but it really is like stepping into a void. To the right the changing rooms, cubicles which come without lockers so either leave your clothes in there or put your bag outside on the bench alongside the strip of lawn on which people sit on their towels or on one of the plastic chairs if you get there early enough.<\/p>\n<p>On the far side of my favourite pool is the grandstand with room for a couple of hundred people overlooking the 30m pool, so too a bandstand.<\/p>\n<p>Walk down the steps at the side of the grandstand and you come to a hatch where you can buy soft hot and cold drinks, toasted sandwiches, jacket potatoes and a cone of chips.<\/p>\n<p>And there you have it. Well, almost, because one of the pool\u2019s greatest attributes is its location, nestling in the valley and with panoramic views of the hills up to Stanage Edge \u2013 a magnet for climbers \u2013 and the village of Abney \u2013 mentioned in the Domesday Book \u2013 and the heather-clad Offerton Moor.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_433071\" style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-433071\" data-attachment-id=\"433071\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/my-favourite-pool-swimming-in-the-snow-at-hathersage-open-air-pool\/20170601_190428\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20170601_190428-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1440,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G920F&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1496343868&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015290519877676&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20170601_190428\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;20170601_190428&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20170601_190428-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20170601_190428-576x1024.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-433071\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20170601_190428-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"20170601_190428\" width=\"349\" height=\"250\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-433071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Liz Byrnes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There is lane swimming and it draws open water swimmers, triathletes training for an event and former club swimmers alongside valley residents and city dwellers who have come out for the combination of fresh air, water and calm.<\/p>\n<p>The pool opened in 1936 as part of the <strong>King George V Memorial Field<\/strong> which included the tennis courts, bandstand, playing field, a sand pit and a 100ft by 50ft paddling pool, now long gone.<\/p>\n<p>So too were there diving boards at the deep end \u2013 also now gone.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official website \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hathersageswimmingpool.co.uk\/\">hathersagepool.co.uk<\/a> &#8211; it all came about thanks to a donation from <strong>George Herbert Lawrence<\/strong>, a manufacturer of razor blades, and he and his wife Elsie were present at the opening of the pool on Saturday 25 July 1936 by <strong>Sir Charles Clegg<\/strong>, who had been a footballer and then later both chairman and president of the Football Association.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently \u201cthe weather was glorious, and there was a large turn-out to watch swimming and diving displays from groups including The Sheffield City Police\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Lawrence was killed on 13 December 1940 when he went to take provisions to his workers at the Laurel razor blade factory in Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p>There was an air raid and the shelter in which he and his employees had gathered took a direct hit from a German bomb.<\/p>\n<p>There are night swims to music \u2013 always popular and a sell-out \u2013 and to Christmas carols with warm mince pies to look forward to once you have nipped out of the pool which is heated to roughly 28 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>I first went to what would become my favourite pool in 2001 with a friend who is sadly no longer with us. He would read the Daily Telegraph and drink cups of tea while I went in and out and up and down.<\/p>\n<p>Then we would go for a drive and find somewhere with a suitably spectacular view to accompany our lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Since then it has become a mainstay of my life. It\u2019s not just about getting my laps in but also a place where I can step through the back of the wardrobe into my very own Narnia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_433072\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-433072\" data-attachment-id=\"433072\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/my-favourite-pool-swimming-in-the-snow-at-hathersage-open-air-pool\/20170601_190409\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20170601_190409-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1440\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G920F&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1496343849&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0011013215859031&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20170601_190409\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;20170601_190409&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20170601_190409-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20170601_190409-1024x576.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-433072\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20170601_190409-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"20170601_190409\" width=\"365\" height=\"261\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-433072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Liz Byrnes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In January 2019 I had arranged to meet a friend there for a swim followed by a home-cooked breakfast at the caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Winding up to the higher ground on the way there, a fleck of snow fell followed by another. And another. And more and more.<\/p>\n<p>My phone went \u2013 would Faye make it or would she cancel? \u2013 but all I could think was \u2018bring it on\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen minutes later I found myself changing in the shivering cold, dashing along from the changing rooms with my flip-flops to protect my feet from the cold and slid quickly into the warm pool.<\/p>\n<p>The steam rose off the water. The snow fell. And the hills were white. It was a magical, magical scene. Warmth in the water and nature all around, a scene that made the regional and local news.<\/p>\n<p>It was truly soup for the soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Favourite Pools. What are yours? 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