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…
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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,…
Oasis Holborn
This site has a long history of pools, both indoor and outdoor plus public washouses and laundries. It has been altered and refurbished a number of times. The data in…
Bude Sea Pool
Built in the 1920s as a safe haven for holidaymakers and locals to enjoy the benefits of sea swimming in a calm and sheltered way. The architecture of the sea…
Gourock Outdoor Pool
The lido was opened in 1909 in a spectacular spot on the Clyde. It started life as a tidal pool with a sandy bottom. The pool was closed at the…
Sandford Parks Lido
Sandford Parks Lido was opened on 25 May 1935, beginning with a procession of open-top motor cars travelling from the Municipal Offices to the Lido, carrying the Mayor of Cheltenham…
Ingleton Open Air Swimming Pool
Back in 1933, a meeting was held by interested parties, with the intention of building an lido (outdoor swimming pool) in Ingleton. At this time, JLE Construction & Co were…
Tinside Lido
The lido design is a semicircle of 180 feet (55 metres) diameter. It stands on the site of the 19th century Ladies Bathing Place, which had been provided with a…
Stratford Park Lido
The Stratford Park Lido scheme was announced in Baths and Baths Engineering, December 1935. The parabolic diving board is a listed structure – see link to Historic England below. The…
Abbey Meadows Outdoor Pool
There has been an open-air pool in Abingdon since the 1880s across the river from the current site. The present pool was dug in the 1950s. Initially, it was a…