Greswolde Lido
In 1935, the Bendall family purchased the Greswolde Arms (later Hotel) and set about creating an outdoor pool on the site of a bowling green. This was an important coaching…
July 2025
St Mary’s Road Baths, Nuneaton
This pool started life as a pair of filter bed tanks appearing on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. The first map showing them as baths is 1923. In July…
Manor House Open Air Sea Water Swimming Pool
This short-lived pool was designed, built and owned by Mr. F. W. Rogers, of Rogers Bros., builders, and contractors, of Felixstowe. The adjacent club was an existing building that had…
Pipers Vale
Pipers Vale and Broom Hill were built to replace the West End Baths (closed 1936), a more rustic pool that was a concern locally due to its potential to pollute…