Kings Meadow Baths aka Thames Lido
Strictly speaking this entry should be for the Ladies Open Air Baths but I am including information for the adjacent and earlier mens pool that is now filled in. The…
2024
Parliament Hill Fields Lido
This lido was the 12th and most expensive (£34,000) of the 13 built by the London County Council (LCC) between the early 1920’s and 1939 and thus represents the ultimate…
South Bay Bathing Pool Scarborough
Originally constructed just after the outbreak of WWI, various facilities were added including a cafe and spectator seating in 1916. Significant additions were made in the 1930’s at a cost…
Chagford Swimming Pool
This is a community-run pool that is on land gifted by the Hayter-Hames family. Name Chagford Swimming PoolRushford, Chagford, Devon, TQ13 8DA Built / opened 1933 Cost Dimensions 100′ x…
South Shore Open Air Bath
Stunning buildings and pool with columns and a magnificent domed entrance. The concourse measured a third of a mile. The scene of beauty contests, swimming galas and host to half…
North Bay Bathing Pool aka Northsteads Lido
North Bay Bathing Pool, opened in July 1938 and has had numerous iterations before its final closure. In 1984 the site was redeveloped and rebranded as Waterscene, and a £500,000…
Matlock Lido
The town of Matlock already had an outdoor pool, part of the New Bath Hotel and still open today, as well as other pools but many of these were attached…
Wandsworth Open Air Pool
One of a number of baths in the London Borough of Wandsworth, the open air pool followed two new enclosed baths built in the 1930’s. I can well imagine the…
Walpole Bay Bathing Pool
The pool is filled from both sea water and a number of freshwater springs that deliver water within the walls. In between this and the western tidal pool, Marine terrace,…
Marine Terrace Bathing Pool
The disused tidal pool, one of two in Margate, was given listed status in 2024. The pool further east, (Walpole) is getting an expensive upgrade but nothing seems to be…