The year 1984 in the UK was dominated by the miners’ strike.
Here we look back at archive photos from Oxford that year, showing plans taking shape to refurbish Temple Cowley Pools, and Oxford United winning the Third Division trophy.
Temple Cowley Pools, now closed, had a long and interesting history.
In 2014, city council leaders decided to sell the site to housing association Catalyst Housing for 47 homes for £3.5m.
Campaigners to save the the pool, which began life as Temple Cowley Baths back in 1938, still hoped for a reprieve.
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Calls were made as early as the 1970s to renovate the dilapidated structure, which was often overbooked and overcrowded.
A £2.3m refurbishment began in 1984 and opened in 1986 at a cost of £3m after delays to provide an Olympic-standard swimming pool for the people of Cowley.
But in September 2010, the council announced plans to build a new pool and leisure centre in Blackbird Leys and demolish Temple Cowley Pools.
The council said the new £9.23m facility was a suitable replacement and Temple Cowley was costing the authority too much to run.
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By October 2010, community activists had collected 10,000 signatures from residents hoping to keep Temple Cowley Pools open.
Save Temple Cowley Pools registered the pool as an asset of community value, meaning the sale was put on hold for six months but ultimately it could not be saved.
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