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.…
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Highfields Open Air Swimming Pool
Highfields Open Air Swimming Pool The Highfields pool was built in 1924 by Lord Trent (Sir Jesse Boot, of Boots the Chemist) in Highfields Park. It was opened on 30th…
Cheddar Swimming Pool
There was attendance of several hundred the opening of Cheddar’s new swimming pool, on Wednesday evening, 27th May 1936. The pool, which adjoined Redcliff Street, was a notable addition to…
Harpenden Open Air Swimming Pool
The people of Harpenden had been trying to get an outdoor pool for many years, starting before WWII. It seems that, whilst it came up regularly on the agenda, it…
Grange Over Sands Open Air Pool
Grange Over Sands Open Air Pool was built into the rock along the coast of the small town and jutting out into Morecambe Bay. It used sea water that would…
Culgaith Swimming Pool
This is a great story of a pool that came about because a group of 1921 school children were tasked with writing an essay about what they thought their local…
Marsden Park Open Air Swimming Pool
Nelson’s new open-air pool was located in Marsden Park. It opened on 19th August 1939. The scheme had cost £7,300 towards which the National Fitness Council had contributed £3,500. The…
Arundel Lido aka The Fitzalan Pool
The Arundel Lido started life as the Fitzalan Pool. The pool was named after the family of the Duke of Norfolk who donated the land to celebrate the 21st birthday…
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…