Pontnewynydd Open-Air Swimming Baths, Abersychan
The open-air swimming baths in Pontnewydd were opened in 1915 by Abersychan Urban District Council. Situated on a small parcel of land opposite Mill Road (which today features a children’s…
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Great Yarmouth Swimming Pool
Opening in 1922, this was a pre-modernist pool, built alongside the sea front. Ranging for 2′ 6″ to 8′ and containing 600,000 gallons of unheated sea water, the pool was…
Newmarket Swimming Pool
In 1935 a new open air swimming pool was opened in Newmarket High Street. The pool was adjacent and behind the White Lion hotel and public house and the land…
West Heath Lido aka The Bath Tub
The West Heath Lido, an oval pool with a sloping shingle beach section at one end, was opened in July 1937 by Gracie Fields and with Mr Ronald Cartland, MP…
Worthing Lido
This lido started life as a bandstand with the current building created in 1925 and converted to a lido in 1959. A bandstand had been on the site since 1897.…
London Fields Lido
Opened in 1932, the pool was one of the first by the design team of London County Council (LCC) architects, Harry Rowbotham and T L Smithson. The site was designated…
Millwall Open Air Pool
Opened in 1925, this pool stood within a walled enclosure 200′ x 90′ that also contained changing facilities and admin buildings and room for 200 swimmers. By the late 1930s,…
Eastville Park Lido
Eastville Park Lido was built as a scheme to relieve unemployment, and opened in 1907. It was at first obligatory for bathers to were full costumes when using the pool,…
Houndsfield Lido
Opened in 1927 and refurbished in 1935, when it re-opened it was the first outdoor pool to be named “lido”. The refurbishment cost £8,700 and this added a filtration plant,…
Abbey Fields Outdoor Pool aka Kenilworth Lido
A pool with a long history on an historic site, it finally closed and was demolished in 2021 after a long battle by a local campaign group. The first swimming…