Bailey Park Swimming Pool, Abergavenny
Gifted to the people by Crawshay Bailey Jr. in the 1880s, Bailey Park was officially opened in 1884. The pool was approved in 1938 and a tender for construction accepted…
Closed
Southall Open Air Bath
Name Southall Open Air BathRecreation Road, Southall, LB Ealing, UB2 5PQ, England Built / opened 1913 Cost Dimensions 120′ x 30′ Water volume Water type Depth(s) 3′ to 6′ Diving…
Dovercourt Bathing Pool
This pool of unfiltered sea water was filled every two weeks at high tide. In 1963 the pool was closed at the end of the season for major refurbishment costing…
Pontnewynydd Open-Air Swimming Baths, Abersychan
The open-air swimming baths in Pontnewydd were opened in 1915 by Abersychan Urban District Council. Situated on a small parcel of land opposite Mill Road (which today features a children’s…
West Heath Lido aka The Bath Tub
The West Heath Lido, an oval pool with a sloping shingle beach section at one end, was opened in July 1937 by Gracie Fields and with Mr Ronald Cartland, MP…
Worthing Lido
This lido started life as a bandstand with the current building created in 1925 and converted to a lido in 1959. A bandstand had been on the site since 1897.…
Millwall Open Air Pool
Opened in 1925, this pool stood within a walled enclosure 200′ x 90′ that also contained changing facilities and admin buildings and room for 200 swimmers. By the late 1930s,…
Eastville Park Lido
Eastville Park Lido was built as a scheme to relieve unemployment, and opened in 1907. It was at first obligatory for bathers to were full costumes when using the pool,…
Houndsfield Lido
Opened in 1927 and refurbished in 1935, when it re-opened it was the first outdoor pool to be named “lido”. The refurbishment cost £8,700 and this added a filtration plant,…
Abbey Fields Outdoor Pool aka Kenilworth Lido
A pool with a long history on an historic site, it finally closed and was demolished in 2021 after a long battle by a local campaign group. The first swimming…