Leominster Open Air Swimming Pool
Sydonia began as an open-air lido in 1937 on land given to the town ‘for the children of Leominster for ever’ by local benefactor Sydney Bridges. It was a small…
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Coate Water Swimming Pool and Diving Platform
This is a tale of three separate and distinct structures in and around the Coate Water that was built as a feeder reservoir for the Wiltshire and Berkshire canal. These…
Churchill Swimming Pool, Hemel Hempstead
The Churchill was an estate of 5 acres owned by the local authority and the swimming pool was opened in May 1937. The pool was built to replace the old…
La Vallette Bathing Pools
The first pool of the four at La Vallette was the Horseshoe, built in 1844, to compensate locals for reduced swimming facilities when the harbour at St Peter Port was…
Avarack Pools aka Miners Pools
A series of pools cut into the rocks by the miners of Geevor in the 1930’s to bathe after their shift. Some sources claim that the pools are natural but…
Sherwood and Carrington Swimming pool aka Carrington Lido
This open-air pool was built on the site of an old tram depot and was one of two pools opened on the same day in the Nottingham area. The other…
Bulwell Swimming Pool aka Bulwell Lido
This open-air pool was one of two pools opened on the same day in the Nottingham area. The other was the Sherwood and Carrington Swimming Pool. The website contains an…
Ramsgate Marina Bathing Pool
The Ramsgate Marina Pool was more of a complex of entertainment than just a pool. It contained a boating lake, rooftop car park and later an ice-skating rink. One of…
Minehead Bathing Pool
Mr Geoffrey Luttrell proposed the idea of an outdoor pool to the Council at Minehead after they offered businesses the chance to acquire land on the Eastern seafront. After some…
Blue Wave Swimming Pool, Diss
The Blue Wave Swimming Pool was privately built by Bellpools Ltd from Wattisfield, a building company run by a Mr BW Belcher. Construction began at the end of January 1953,…