Colchester Open Air Baths – Colne Bank. Happy carefree days.
Colchester Open Air Baths above in its heyday. The 2 pictures extracted from
Daily Gazette Essex County Standard
Colchester Open Air Baths
Colchester Baths gave many families happy times. Many children learned to swim and many carefree hours spent enjoying the beauty of it. Sadly as most lidos suffered a decline in patronage due to inclement weather and cheap flights to the sun, put paid to the pool as it was.
As it is today, I found great peace and tranquillity walking around the beautiful wetland that it has become, but echoing in my mind the shrieks and laughter of the children having great fun. The banging of the diving boards as divers took off into the air resulting in giratory actions and righting themselves just before they hit the water!
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A short video AGJ 01/07/18
Private postcard collection agj
Open Air Swimming in Colchester. In their glory, and now a beautiful natural wildlife wetland
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