Chelmsford Baths aka Riverside
The open-air bath at the Waterloo Lane site was opened on 5th May 1906 by the mayoress, Mrs Frederic Chancellor. The pool measured 150 feet by 100 feet, held 437,000…
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Cold Knap Bathing Pool aka Barry Lido
Barry’s Cold Knap Lido opened on 1st May 1926 and, in common with many others, was built by the local unemployed. The paddling pool was a later addition, possibly circa…
Enfield Baths
Enfield Baths was a fairly standard rectangular pool surrounded by a huge oval stadium with extensive support buildings. When the pool opened in 1932, it was lauded as the “largest”…
Downham Market
The original proposal for a pool was to be in the fields to the north of Rouse’s Lane but this did not pass planning so a new applicaiton was made,…
Stamshaw Open Air Pool
Bathing in the area was in a lagoon opposite Whale Island in Portsmouth Harbour. Changing facilities were provided in 1904. By 1909, funds of £5,237 had been approved to form…
Longley Park Bathing Pool
The pool at Longley Park in Sheffield has a connection with the open-air pool at Hathersage. Both were gifts to the community from George Lawrence, proprietor of G H Lawrence…
Purley Way Open-Air Bathing Pool
A London pool that was one of very few that could compete with the size and spectacle of the seaside stadiums such as South Shore at Blackpool, Morecambe and Heysham…
Spiders Web Bathing Pool, Whitby
The pool was privately owned by Mr H S Meek. He originally offered the pool with the attached cafe and putting green on 6,400 square yards of land to the…
Peterborough Lido
The lido at Peterborough is of a design unlike others and this could be down to the unusual design process. When the council proposed the pool, a group of five…
Stanley Park Swimming Bath
Stanley Park is in Anfield and is one of Liverpool’s great parks built in the Victorian era. It opened in 1870 and was designed by Edward Kemp. It is Grade…