With 38 days left in the current season, today marked the inauguration of the sauna, proudly standing where the original cafe once stood. Today was a day of free entry. The sauna is now enclosed in it’s own area with wooden palings and has it’s own little gate.
Better have decided to charge, swimming season ticket holders an extra £2 for a twenty minute session identified with a rubber band, it’s unclear to me how will this will work in practice, unless a ‘lifeguard’ gets stationed at the picket fence. Day swimmers can get a swim+sauna ticket for £6.50 or maybe it’s going to be £6.80 🙂
It’s an interesting idea, time will tell if it gets used, it’s already been vandalised once by the night raiders so doesn’t bode to well 🙁
The pool is currently suffering terribly due to the breakdown of its filtration pumps (now fixed apparently) after a very busy sunny weekend.
Today Better roped of the deep centre portion leaving two 40 yard sections at each end. The deep water was so cloudy they couldn’t see their test manequin on the pool bottom 🙁
You can see the difference in my comparison picture from a year ago. Tomorrow Friday 24th July it might be best to call them 01223 302579 to check the situation before going.
The pool is also suffering it’s annual problems with the hot showers. This year its the turn of the ladies to have a cold one!
Maybe instead of installing a sauna, which apparently should be operational ‘soon’ the money could have been better spent on refurbishing the showers and pump room!
NB
A reader writes:
Yikes!
I’ve just got out of Letchworth pool and they’re having a similar problem – green bottom….
Summer time and the living is easy! .. and the pool water is LOVELY (22 degrees, so come along and COOL DOWN after a hot day and ENJOY!
Come on down to Jesus Green Swimming Pool this Saturday 4 July between 6pm and 8.30pm for a mellow summer evening of music, community song, swimming and picnicking at the 11th annual Talking in Tune Sing and Swim for Water Aid, one of the highlights of the Cambridge Summer Social Calendar! Bring your kids, grannies, pals and come and hang out for a couple of hours in the finest lidos of the land. The weather forecast is for golden evening sunshine after a hot day.
We have a great evening line up for you.
Musicians include the Andy Bowie Jazz Trio, Tom Ling, Ranjan Vasudevan and Pete Towers with his amazing sink guitar who will all play summer music to us as we swim and picnic. (Swimming to live music is an experience not to be missed!) Singers from ReSound and Good Vibrations Choir, Global Harmony Community Singers, Milton Road Primary School and Shout Aloud will sing poolside and the evening will end with a poolside community singalong of Summer and Watery songs with backing band, with lyric sheets provided.
Tickets cost £7, (£5 concessions for people on a low income, £3 for school age children) at the door, or phone 01223 573288, email talkingintune@ntlworld.com to beat the queue.
Bring along your picnics (no glass bottles please), swimming kits, rugs and blankets; Yummy Home-made cakes and snacks will be on sale for WaterAid . The pool cafe will also be open. Inflatable crocodiles, whales and dolphins etc are welcome and synchronised swimming and singing will be encouraged!
Please note: the pool will close for public swimming at 5.30pm on the day. If you are already there, and wish to stay sitting poolside (the pool itself will be swimmer-free for half an hour to give the staff a break) , you are welcome to do that – we will come and sell you tickets !
Access to clean water is something we take for granted here and this is a chance to acknowledge this and celebrate the fantastic atmosphere of Jesus Green Pool. All the musicians are playing for free and, all the proceeds will be donated to fund Water Aid, providing access to clean water to families and communities in Ghana and Malawi.www.wateraid.org/uk
Once again Better invited us to a pre-opening party & swim with the staff & we regulars. If you want to be invited to these specials then please sign up to our email list in the side column. No charges or spam involved.
Pool & shower temperatures from my data logger
The pool was at a balmy 15 degrees, the same temperature as the outside. I managed 4 lengths but some folks did 10+ lengths in regular swim gear, although a few were wearing shortie wetsuits. The men’s showers were suffering the same problems as last year with water alternating between hot (24 deg) and cold. But with free coffee & panini slices from the cafe (who interestingly now have the franchise at Parkside) plus a beaker of bubbly 🙂 we enjoyed ourselves. The drizzle & cold kept the numbers down to 20 or so.
The new season looks promising with heaters promised for the new wet day refuge and a sauna later in the season. A slight warning the new paint has made the pool bottom slippery so be ready for a splash 🙂
The official opening is tomorrow, Sat 9th May at 10am, let’s hope the sun comes out. It’s free for the day…
Better are once again organising a pre-opening dip on Friday 8th May between 5pm and 7pm to which all regular swimmers are invited.
For the 92nd Season Jesus Green Lido will be opening on Saturday 9th May at 10am with FREE Swimming from 10am until 6pm on the first day for all participants.
Jesus Green Pool filling starts
Better have started to fill the pool this morning so, hopefully, by this weekend the pool will be full, giving it a full week to bask in the sunshine & warm up 🙂
I did an inspection of the pool today 🙂 The painting is going well and they are hoping to fill the pool towards the end of next week.
Even better news is that Better have now installed the missing set of steps, as suggested by myself, at the Mens shallow end 🙂 although the slats are missing they hope to complete by the opening.
Even better is that Better have now created Christopher’s idea of a wet weather shelter by reversing a few of the changing cubicles. They have chosen a few of the ladies ones adjacent to the vending machines, which I guess will quickly fill up with kids on the warmer days. Although usually when it is cold & wet only us regulars are there 🙂
So yep Better listen and even better they ACT..
Also it looks like the 3 pool idea, cafe outdoor gym and sauna may also happen in years to come. If cash can be found…
On 22nd January this year I attended with about 25 others An Evening of Ideas for Jesus Green Pool organised by Better & The Council at the Wesley Church.
Proposals were handed out all with the theme of dividing the existing 100 yard pool into three. Giving a 50 metre unheated pool, a 25 metre pool (could be heated?) and a kids 10 metre wet area (fountains, pool etc.) Other ideas floated were moving the entrance to the lock keepers end with maybe an integrated cafe / fitness area. Other ideas were a sauna etc etc.
I think the council were pleasantly surprised by the lack of hostility to the proposals although, obviously, there were many concerns. Especially of fixing existing maintenance issues! eg showers, smells etc
Today the pool cafe, all be it with limited options due to electricity supply problems.
Two budding entrepreneurs, Rickie & Will have taken it on for the season. They certainly seem very enthusiastic and on the ball.
I gave them the results from our little mail shot which has garnered 18 responses in 24 hours! Cheese, Coffee, banana’s, tea, Tomato, Water, Mango, Egg, Apple & Tuna appear in the top 10 of requested items. All the results can be found by clicking this link. Jesus Green Lido Cafe – Coming Soon(2014-06-12 17-46-45)
We wish them well in their endeavour.
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Today the pool cafe, all be it with limited options due to electricity supply problems.