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Extracts below taken from Scottish Diver outline the Branch joining
SSAC.
January
"At last after a year of negotiations with the Bathgate Town Council
our Club's application for a Baths Session has been approved. The Session
will probably be on Tuesday evenings."
Approval was given and the Branch still meet at the pool on a Tuesday
evening.
March
"Paisley Branch ....... Welcome to Bathgate - some of our members
will be through shortly to give a hand."
"Bathgate Branch
On Tuesday, 23rd January, a good number of curious townspeople turned
up at Bathgate Baths for a talk and demonstration of aqualung swimming
by Mr Peter Bell and other prominent members of the Scottish Sub-Aqua
Club. Fired by this, over twenty people decided to form a branch in
Bathgate, and offers of help and loans of lungs poured in from other
branches. Lillywhites also offered the loan of a lung.
All members of the branch are tearing enthusiastically through the
initial tests, and several have begun aqualung training. Training is
under the supervision of Jim Easton, the founder member, with the help
of various contingents from the West, for which we are very grateful
indeed.
As a start towards fund raising, a whist drive has been planned for
28th March.
We look forward to joining eventually in the various activities of
the Club, and meanwhile thank everyone who has helped us to get underway."
May
"Bathgate
The Bathgate Branch is now four months old, and has collected twenty-five
members since its inauguration. The baths training is progressing satisfactorily,
with approximately nine members doing aqualung training, and we are
pleased to report that we now have four 3rd class divers. They have
been accompanying the Hamilton Branch on their Sunday diving expeditions.
However, we hope to be organising outings of our own very soon. The
AGM was held on Tuesday 17th April, and the new committee was elected.
The Whist Drive held on 28th March was very successful and made a profit
of £24. Negotiations are now being made for the purchase (by H.P.)
of a complete lung, which will be the first to belong to the branch.
A dance is planned for 8th June, 8.30 p.m. in Co-op. Hall. All Welcome." |
