Queniborough Swimming Pool Re-Opens
On Friday 17th January a group of people waited outside the newly refurbished swimming pool for the Mayor of Charnwood Dr Julie Bradshaw MBE accompanied by the Mayoress of Charnwood Julie Ellerbeck (not shown in picture) opened the newly refurbished swimming pool in Queniborough. Along with a two year old user of the pool (not shown), the Mayor cut the ribbons and allowed us all entry to the pool house.
The swimming pool had closed about 18 months ago and was sold by the Church due to the costs so local residents and schools lost an amazing facility.
Luckily it was bought by Yvonne and Trevor Farmer. They along with Swim with Jo partner Tracey Murch started in August 2024 to refurbish this well loved facility.
The building was once the local primary school, built in 1847, it became a swimming pool in 1970 after a new primary school was built in Coppice lane starting 1953 and completing in 1966.
Mr and Mrs Farmer wanted to retain as much of the original features of the building as they could, so new boiler was installed, and commercial pumping system for the swimming pool, which filters the whole pool every hour. They have also a wonderful robot cleaner which cleans the bottom and sides of the pool, to keep it clean. A pool cover is used when the pool if not in use to help keep the water at the desired temperature.
The whole interior has been repainted in a lovely calming and warm blue, the changing rooms have hooks, benches and lockers, plus toilets towards to rear of the building.
It is an amazing venue refurbished in record time, a lot of long hours and hard work put in by Aron Partridge to get it completed and opened for the beginning of 2025. Well done to all involved, it is a beautiful facility and long may it continue to be so.
Swim with Jo who will be facilitating the pool will be offering classes here, from babies to local schools. They teach at 12 pools across Leicestershire and offer classes from babies to Adults using fun and play approach. So to include this one at Queniborough is great bonus for them.
Swim with Jo’s team are all DBS checked safeguarded and rescue qualified, as well as teaching swimming lessons they teach curriculum school swimming to eight schools locally.
Last summer they delivered 17 water safety assemblies to local primary schools and nurseries reaching over 3,500 children in total including their own swimmers. Jo and her team say that swimming is a vital skill that saves lives, they feel that local swimming pools need to be saved as they provide this vital facility to local children.
They also said that they are honoured to be facilitating the newly refurbished pool in Queniborough and are now taking bookings for classes.
The Mayor of Charnwood said before unveiling the plaque inside the pool house that she was so pleased to see the swimming pool ready for use again as she is an advocate for swimming holding 21 world records including swimming the English Channel butterfly.
