THE fight to get Bingley Pool re-opened has highlighted community support for local swimming baths.

We’ve dipped into our archive for this look back at swimming in the district over the years.

Pictured above are:

Youngsters enjoying a swimming lesson at the newly refurbished Thornton Baths in 1968.

Swimming teacher Dorothy Perkins, pictured with children at her club, The Bradford Penguins, in October 1961.

Cottage Baths on Tong Street in 1956, where a swimming session would cost you a shilling.

Manchester Road Baths, pictured in 1968.

Youngsters from the Bradford Schools Swimming Association making a splash back in 1985.

Queensbury Baths pictured in 1969 when it was in need of a refurbishment.

Testing the water in Britain’s oldest educational swimming pool at Wapping First School in 1997.

Swimming lessons at the old Manningham Baths in 1997.

The Windsor Baths which opened in 1905 as the Central Baths, seen here in 1968.

Young swimmers who were the first to gain the Royal Life Saving Society’s newest honour at Bowling Baths in 1963.