So this is worth waiting for (‘Five-star pool unveiled’, Monday’s Oxford Mail).

Village changing – oh yes! That means you cannot strip off in your own changing room. What is the world coming to?

I will tell you of the pool I remember for so many years.

I started after the war (at age seven or thereabouts) `Miss Bateman let you enter, then there were two attendants, Bill and Fred (handy with a rolled up towel..!) lockers if you wanted them, cubicles also on the other side of the wall – we boys went there.

The clothes were left in a ball covered with the towel, shoes underneath (nothing was stolen), good toilets and then the shower (cold, tepid and warm, easily controlled) then a footbath, which you hogged, if you could.

Then the pool, 3ft to 10ft, diving boards, three boards up to a 10-metre one, also a springboard.

You say this £16.8m edifice is a five-star pool.

How life has degenerated since those days. What is happening to our world?

Mike Everett, Upper Road, Kennington