High Wycombe Open Air Swimming Pool aka Holywell Mead aka Wycombe Rye Lido
A 1950’s lido saved by a local campaign and built on the site of a Roman villa. Apparently it is still there, under the pool. The pool on Holywell Mead…
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Kings Meadow Baths aka Thames Lido
Strictly speaking this entry should be for the Ladies Open Air Baths but I am including information for the adjacent and earlier mens pool that is now filled in. The…
Parliament Hill Fields Lido
This lido was the 12th and most expensive (£34,000) of the 13 built by the London County Council (LCC) between the early 1920’s and 1939 and thus represents the ultimate…
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…
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…