Cleethorpes Bathing Pool
To date, the pool with the largest capacity of water in the database at a staggering 2,000,000 gallons. It opened unofficially in 1923 and saw use for two seasons before…
Spalding Open Air Swimming Pool
The pool was opened on 10th July 1935. There were 2 open balconies on either side of the pool with changing rooms below. One balcony was closed for years (male…
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…
New Brighton Open Air Pool
This huge pool had a number of supporting buildings including six shops and a drying room for people that had fallen into the pool by accident. In February 1935, Baths…
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…
South Bay Bathing Pool Scarborough
Originally constructed just after the outbreak of WWI, various facilities were added including a cafe and spectator seating in 1916. Significant additions were made in the 1930’s at a cost…
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…
South Shore Open Air Bath
Stunning buildings and pool with columns and a magnificent domed entrance. The concourse measured a third of a mile. The scene of beauty contests, swimming galas and host to half…
North Bay Bathing Pool aka Northsteads Lido
North Bay Bathing Pool, opened in July 1938 and has had numerous iterations before its final closure. In 1984 the site was redeveloped and rebranded as Waterscene, and a £500,000…