Sally Goble has written about swimming for The Guardian since 2013, with a blog and features that have documented her many inspiring adventures in the water – including a Channel swim, ice-swimming in Sweden, and doing a mile a day for 50 days as a fiftieth birthday challenge. It was a delight to welcome her to… Read More A Lido Daytrip: Sally Goble
In the years Deborah Herridge worked in Lewes, she never fancied a dip in Pells. But when she returned to town last summer it was in her new and much hardier identity as Channel swimmer in waiting… I used to work in Lewes as the Education Officer at the castle, and it saddens me I… Read More Swimming in the Rain
Longtime weekday regular Annie Rowe writes for Pells Pool about the ‘internal negotiations’ that she – and many other swimmers – go through when setting off for the pool and staying in it… I came to love swimming in my thirties and now if I don’t swim for a few days I get scratchy and… Read More 25 Laps of Pells: Annie Rowe
All the fragile heat built up in the last week is blown away. One hardy father (a weekday lunchtime regular) and his happy, enthusiast son are the only ones in: “Let’s do a length of breaststroke — race this time.” says the boy, and the father is game, sets off, fast. Doesn’t see, as I… Read More By a Lido, after Rain
‘Pool: Competition. Lido: Community. Pool: Doing. Lido: Being.’ This week’s guest writer ‘slipped into the deep end’ of Pells ‘like a letter into an envelope.’ And what a letter this is about the life of the mind and body, both… I have tried to swim twice this month. I have also been trying to write. The two… Read More Body/Language: Holly Dawson
“I tried to remember the hours of training in pools preparing me for this moment. The sheer joy of the time spent on sunny afternoons in the clear spring waters at Pells, where I’d practised a cornucopia of strokes, one for every possible situation.” Many local triathletes use Pells Pool during summer as part of… Read More Laps of Pells: Mike Hannay (triathlete)
‘Malling Down’ by Rachel Playforth is the most recent poem to go on display at Pells Pool as part of our 2016 season celebration of the close links between water and creativity. Writer-in-residence Tanya Shadrick, curator for the poolside displays, says of Rachel’s work: “I asked Rachel to submit a poem for consideration based on my love… Read More Poolside Poems: Rachel Playforth
