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SWIM BATH BACKLASH

PRESSURE was last night (Wednesday) growing on the Town Hall to come clean over its plans for the historic Prince of Wales swimming baths as campaigners geared up to fight any closure plan.
Anxious users inundated the New Journal with letters and phone calls this week after council chiefs refused to categorically rule out closure. Author Hunter Davies and Fiona Millar, the former Number 10 press aide and partner of Tony Blair’s former spin chief Alastair Campbell, added their voices to the growing concern.
Ms Millar, a governor of Gospel Oak school, who took the government to task two years ago over school funding cuts, warned that pupils would lose out if the baths, opened in 1901, closed.
“All the schools throughout Camden use it,” she said. “It is so important. I know pupils at Parliament Hill and William Ellis (schools in Highgate) rely on it. I hope the council find the cash. It’s part of our heritage.
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POST-war, early 1950s Britain was still experiencing food rationing and was a disillusioning place for English gourmands. The war had destroyed the restaurant trade and, with few exceptions, post-war eateries made the worst of a bad situation.
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