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Actor: ‘Baths helped ME beat crash injuries’

ACTOR Roger Lloyd Pack has joined calls for Kentish Town swimming baths to be saved – and revealed how swimming there helped him recuperate after a car accident.
Mr Lloyd Pack, who lives in Lady Somerset Road, said: “I broke my ribs, my collar bone and smashed my hip in a car accident in France in 1987. It was touch and go if I would survive – I am lucky to be here now. I needed to exercise as part of my rehabilitation and I found it an amazing place.”
He swam every day at the Prince of Wales Road pool to help regain his strength. Mr Lloyd Pack said: “I feel a strong sense of loyalty towards the baths.”
Mr Lloyd Pack – who has a string of film, TV and stage roles under his belt, but is best known to the public as Trigger from Only Fools and Horses – wants the council to “think long and hard” about its budget priorities. He added: “They have left it and left it and left it. This seems to be a case of bad management coupled with not having the money to spend. ”
Pictured: Mr Lloyd Pack, left, with Phil Thompson of the Save the Pool campaign and Mr Lloyd Pack’s Edwardian sign from the baths.

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