Sudbury Swimming Pool
Sudbury’s new outdoor pool opened on 3rd June 1939 by Lord Cranbrook and was to replace the Old Bathing Place on the river that had to be closed following an…
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Coatham Enclosure Open Air Pool
Built and opened in 1930, Coatham Enclosure included indoor and outdoor pools, ornamental boating lake, amid rock gardens with multi coloured lighting at night. The total cost was £28,000 of…
Pells Pool aka Lewes Swimming Bath
Pells Pool started life as two pools, opening in 1861. One pool was a subscription pool and the other was free. It is the oldest continually operating pool in the…
Aldershot Lido
The unusual and organic shape of Aldershot Lido gives a pool of significant proportions but was still designed for diving, swimming lengths and water polo. It was opened on 24th…
Pickie Pool
Pickie Pool in Bangor was built as a formal bathing pool with supporting concrete buildings in the 1930’s. A definitive date is not easily found but it appears that the…
Bourne Outdoor Swimming Pool
Bourne Outdoor Swimming Pool is built on the site of the abbey fish pond that had been in place for hundreds of years. The pond was first designated as a…
Smallthorne Open Air Swimming Baths
The colliery surveyor Thomas Kent designed the pool, which was to be open to the public. The water was to be heated by boilers in the colliery. The pool was…
Trentham Open-Air Swimming Pool
In the early 1930’s the Trentham Estate undertook various works to improve its attraction to visitors. This included a new gatehouse and a miniature railway. The plans for a new…
Ystalyfera Open Air Pool
A proposal for a swimming pool at Ystalyfera started in 1936 following indications that the local rivers were contaminated and no other location was available for children to learn to…
Dawdon Colliery Pit Pool
Dawdon Colliery Swimming Pool started out as a reservoir on the pit site and was already hosting swimming galas when the miners decided to make it into a proper pool.…