Kings Lynn
This pool was within an area of the town called The Walks so was a town centre pool rather than a seaside one. Very little information is to be found.…
Demolished
Lakenham Swimming Bath
The original 80-yard pool was built in 1908 when part of the River Yare was sealed off. By the 1920s, swimming galas were held there, which attracted swimmers from across…
Norwich Open Air Baths
This pool first appears on ordnance survey maps around 1914, before the main park was established. By 1955 it was referred to as the “Old Swimming Pool” on maps. The…
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…
Great Yarmouth Swimming Pool
Opening in 1922, this was a pre-modernist pool, built alongside the sea front. Ranging for 2′ 6″ to 8′ and containing 600,000 gallons of unheated sea water, the pool was…
Newmarket Swimming Pool
In 1935 a new open air swimming pool was opened in Newmarket High Street. The pool was adjacent and behind the White Lion hotel and public house and the land…
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,…
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,…
Arbroath Bathing Pool
This large pool was built by the unemployed on a site that used to form part of the garden ground of Seaforth House between the public tennis courts and the…