Hoylake Bathing Pool
One of eight outdoor pools along the coast of the Wirral Peninsula. Hoylake was built in 1912 and had a capacity for 2,500 bathers. By the late 1920’s it was…
St Annes Swimming Pool
The pool at St Annes, also known in the early days as The Roman Baths, was built in 1916 to a design by architect Fred Harrison. The pool was a…
Woking Park Swimming Pool
The Woking outdoor swimming pool was built in 1935 despite typical planning wranglings and cost increases. One cost, of £1,200, was for a new bridge of the delightfully named Hoe…
Ilkley Open Air Bathing Pool
Ilkley Open Air Pool was designed in the 1930s by Percy Tempest and Archibald Skinner and opened in time for the 1935 Jubilee celebrations. The pool has wonderful views over…
Exmouth Open Air Baths
The Exmouth Open Air Bath was opened on 11th May 1932 by the Chairman of the Council. It was built on a site that was previously used for tennis courts.…
Central Park Open Air Baths, East Ham
An open air swimming pool was opened in Central Park in 1901. It was temporarily closed during WWI and re-opened in 1989 only to be closed permanently in 1923. The…
Malvern Park
The site of this pool appears as a body of water on the O/S map of 1886 depicting it as part of the Malvern Park estate. The estate passed into…
Nuffield Pool aka Europa Pool
The Nuffield Pool, close to the tip of Gibraltar, at Europa Point, was built on the site of a WWII prisoner of war camp. In one of the photographs you…
Seaclose Bathing Pool
Work on a new pool for Newport started in 1933 and provided work for 15 unemployed men of the area. By July 1934, it was announced that the Mayors Work…
Devizes Open Air Swimming Pool
A new pool was built in the Wiltshire town of Devizes as the existing bathing place, an enclosure of part of the Kennet and Avon Canal, was becoming a hygiene…