Bailey Park Swimming Pool, Abergavenny
Gifted to the people by Crawshay Bailey Jr. in the 1880s, Bailey Park was officially opened in 1884. The pool was approved in 1938 and a tender for construction accepted…
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Southall Open Air Bath
Name Southall Open Air BathRecreation Road, Southall, LB Ealing, UB2 5PQ, England Built / opened 1913 Cost Dimensions 120′ x 30′ Water volume Water type Depth(s) 3′ to 6′ Diving…
Saltcoats Tidal Bathing Pool
A bathing station has been on or around this site since the 1880’s. In April 1907 Saltcoats Town Council agreed to build a tidal bathing pool in Winton Circus. It…
Dovercourt Bathing Pool
This pool of unfiltered sea water was filled every two weeks at high tide. In 1963 the pool was closed at the end of the season for major refurbishment costing…
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…
Sea Lanes, Brighton
A large pool designed for lane swimming rather than a multi use facility, this pool runs parallel with the sea front and close to the historic Madeira Drive. The iron…
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…
Helmsley Open Air Pool
Helmsley is the only heated open air pool in Yorkshire. The pool, opened in 1969 by the Duke of Norfolk and built by the Feversham Memorial Trust at a cost…