SIR – Chris Evans (Letters, August 1) might join the band of Bradford cynics that Ian Greenwood rails against, as he knows ‘the price of everything and the value of nothing’.
The same charge could be levelled at Ian Greenwood except he doesn’t have a facility with pricing: the Council costings for refurbishment are £400,000, then £4 million; the savings derived from closing Manningham Pool, (£119,000 a year), have been sunk by the cost of transporting schools to others pools, £47,400. The Friends of Manningham Pool believe the principle of pool provision as a social service still applies.
With a capacity of 50, the pool is prey to the numbers game. In our bid to the Council, we offered similar services to other Friends of parks and pools groups in Bradford; the sticking point was we couldn’t provide, at the drop of a hat, the technical expertise to run the pool. Since 2008,when the pool was last under threat, the Council has been in a position to initiate a Friends group, but back then there was a firm intention to close the pool.
The Friends will be in a position to fundraise once the immediate threat to empty the pool, thereby causing the sides to collapse and do irreparable damage, is lifted.
Bruce Barnes, member of the Friends of Manningham Pool, Wilmer Road, Heaton
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