Where have all the water slides gone in the UK?
Posted by BurgerAndFries_@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 20 comments
When I was a child in the 90s there where an abundance of water slides, water slides at every pool, great big water slides.now, the water slides have gone or the pool has gone forever. Going down a water slide gives me joy and freedom, all my troubles go away just for a moment as the euthroia of sliding down a water slide happens. You get that thing where you think you are going to over the side because you are moving too fast, but you never do. You hit the water at such speed but it's a lot of fun. People love water slides but they are dying out, as the country gets warmer we should get more pools and slides, slides should be accessible for everyone. I remember as a kid going to the local swimming pool, hitting the slides, messing about on the floats and going through the rapids. Now it's all gone, it's all gone. We would go up to to the cafe afterwards which is now also closed and get a burger and fries, life was good and so easy, not a care in the world. Now we have nothing but unobtainable dreams and no slides?
VermicelliFull8587@reddit
if this helps, you might fancy building one at home. big game hunters has some great water slides available too!
NoCommunication7@reddit
I'm guessing because kids kept hurting themselves being stupid, the modern day is all about ruining things for others because of one idiot.
TeamOfPups@reddit
Yeah there's fuck all waterslides in Edinburgh. Back in the day we had some here.
So we'd take the kid up to Dundee but that pool shut down in the last few years.
This summer I took the kid to Blackpool specially for waterslides.
Ok_Parking7650@reddit
I think there are water slides at the pool in Livingston
browneyone@reddit
Slid away.
TheStatMan2@reddit
They gave it all they got
My today, fell in from the top.
Etc etc.
DameKumquat@reddit
There's plenty of 'leisure pools' with slides and rapids and all, eg Woolwich leisure centre, Adventure Island near Portsmouth, but the slides seem to be concentrated in those and not in your average local pool, which has also generally lost diving boards. Sometimes there's a kids slide into the kiddie pool.
Risk-averse insurers, probably. Possibly more people wanting to swim lengths, too.
jamiewh_@reddit
That’s a nice random selection of towns. Nice one.
moon-bouquet@reddit
A lot of the ones near us - private and council alike - were built on the cheap and the tubes leaked on the pavement/pool surround. I think they were all built at the same time in the eighties and all reached the end of their lifespans at the same time, too.
PhantomLamb@reddit
Massive council budget cuts from 2010 onwards. They were understandably not near the top of the priority list
Baynonymous@reddit
Went to the one in scarborough and smashed my head off the side on the way down. Never felt so old in my life
Sharp_Connection_377@reddit
Cock all to do with health and safety.
They are expensive to maintain, and with council budgets cut you won't see them in council leisure centres. You'll in fact be lucky to have leisure centres.
And if they break, no way they are getting replaced.
Still a few private ones, but the one in Scotland I'm thinking of (the time capsule) has all the good stuff restricted to peak times, and half of it seems to be in poor repair
glasgowgeg@reddit
Grangemouth still has the 2 flumes it's always had, according to their website.
Tango91@reddit
Hosepipe ban mate
Necessary_Driver_831@reddit
I’m hoping for something good from this new one they see building at Manchester. My local is Barnsley Metrodome and the last 3 times I’ve been with my kids I’ve come back with an ear infection every time. Grim place but no alternative locally
InviteAromatic6124@reddit
There's a small water park in Rhyl near me, but it only has 3 slides and a kiddie area.
mhoulden@reddit
Too expensive to maintain. This Specsavers ad is as close as you'll get now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th79ZfXR4qs
losimagic@reddit
My local leisure centre reopened their outdoor pool last week after 18 months of refurbishments and a £5m bill. They installed 2 massive new water slides
pepe612@reddit
'elf an' safety.
GlitchingGecko@reddit
Probably the same place everything fun did - down the dark hole of health and safety.