New Additions to Lost Lidos
UPDATES
♦ 01/11/2021 Does anyone know about the swimming pool on Isle of Dogs?!
Courtesy of Mick Lemmerman BLOG
Pictures will enlarge…
♦ 06/09/20 … 27/09/20…01/10/20
NEW – Burnham Beeches Open Air Swimming Pools and pictures of Bramhall and Castle Mill Baths in Search Hub
and…an age old invention… the moveable floors at Earls Court – Swimming pool/Marina section.
♦ 18/02/20 CAN ANYONE HELP MALCOLM? Father Albert Charles England dived with The Swallows at Highgate Ponds in the 20s.See pictures
♦ 04/10/19 New pictures of Harlesden Swimming Pool. The forgotten pool. Courtesy of W.E. Kocher
♦ 29/07/19Write me a little story!
♦ 17//07/19 Reopening the Campaign to save ARTHUR HILL MEMORIAL BATHS. Sale to developer has fallen through
♦ 27/04/19 Start of Howstrake Pool in Isle of Man
♦ 04/04/19 Who remembers the Luton Pools inside and out? Picture added on Search Hub
♦11/01/19 Trentham Gardens Lido site located
♦ 13/12/18 Arthur Hill Memorial Baths Reading. “Who bought our Baths”pdf
♦ 26/11/18 Kenilworth Lido found on Lido News
♦ 23/09/18 Completed Twickenham Lido Page
♦ 20/09/18 New searches on Search Hub and queries. Thank you to those that help other Lido fans. Latest solutions…West Wing Lido Leatherhead; latest search Beckton Lido. Lovely more informative comments on SHb.
Between these times added is…”win some goggles by screenshotting a completed crossword!”
♦ 09/07/18 Starting new page Okehampton Open Air Pool
♦ 04/07/18 Starting new page Old Colchester Open Air Swimming Baths.
♦ 22/06/18 New page started on Twickenham Lido
♦ 19/06/18 Search Hub! Pictures of Brightlingsea; Colchester; Gosport; North Berwick; Rhyl
♦ 16/06/18 Purley Pool Croydon
♦14/06/18 New recent picture of the Sandcastle Water Park South Shore Blackpool
06/06/18 WONDERFUL Purley Way Pool Memories from Toby Jacobs. See Purley Pool comments
♦06/06/18 6 new pictures of derelict Sudbury Lido in Suffolk, and two new pictures of Purley Way Pool. See comments on Purley Way Pool Post. Thank you Toby Jacobs
♦06/06/18 Interactive Crossword Puzzle Page and Lido Vision – moved
♦31/05/18 The Great Wembley Empire Pool now of course…Wembley Arena
♦18/05/18.GladstonePark and Sudbury Vale Farm Lido and Willesden King Edward VII Pool
♦06/05/18 Possible location of Okehampton Lido
♦23/04/18 “The Secret Swimming Pond” Lido News
♦20/04/18 Petition added to Arthur Hill Memorial Baths – Reading Central Pool and Lido News
♦14/04/18 More edits this week on Scarbrook Road Baths–Danson Park Lido–Coley and Tilehurst Road Baths-wKings Meadow Baths–Arthur Hill Memorial Baths Lowestoft Grand Indoor Salt Water Baths
♦ 25/09/17 More information and images on Kingfisher Lido Wall Heath
♦ 20/08/17 New Picture of Coley Open Air Baths in Reading
♦ 27/07/17 Two new pictures on Granville Baths Willesden. Also a link to a lovely blogspot – “Swimming in Granville Baths”
♦ 01/07/17 More on Grimley – on-Severn. The days of the hot summer afternoons IN the river.
♦ 03/06/17 Picture of new “searched for lido” – Spiders Web, Whitby. Found on Search Hub
♦ 31/05/17 New feature image – Plymouth Hoe
New additions cont.
♦ 15/05/17 Visit my Scarborough page. A MUST is to click onto a wonderful collection of photos contributed by a member “Douglas” on Scarborough South Bay Lido. An exquisite set of pictures. Over the moon… my website page is… https://www.lostlidos.co.uk/2015/05/13/scarborough-lidos/
♦ 12/05/17 New pictures taken 2002 Kings Meadow Baths Reading
♦ 01/05/17 A happy story on this May Day – how beautiful is this?
New additions cont.
♦ 30/04/17 Update on Arthur Hill Baths
♦ 24/04/17 A lovely film about North Berwick and the Bass Rock on utube.
It features the Lido ( 4.50 – 6.01) See the crowds flocking out! Thanks to member Eric
♦ 14/04/17 More pics for Plymouth Tinside Lido
♦ 12/03/17 A great collection of additional pictures of Scarbourough’s South Bay Lido – Heyday – Ailing – Demise, from one of our Members
♦ 01/03/17 Swimming Gala Programme 1900 cover, Heene Road Baths Worthing
♦ 01/03/17 Photos added to Clacton Pier Pool
New additions cont.
♦ 29/02/17 A couple more historical pictures Morecambe Swim Stadium
♦ 14/02/17 Update Arthur Hill Memorial Baths
♦ 05/02/17 Super utube video link of Park Hall Lido, Hayfield – on Lido News
♦ 30/01/17 Additional images on Clacton Butlins Pool
♦ 24/01/17 New picture of Weston-Super-Mare
♦ New picture of Great Yarmouth Outdoor Swimming Pool
♦ 24/01/17 New picture of Plymouth Tinside Lido
Hello, thanks for the kind words about my article on the Scarborough South Bay Lido- the link seems to be wrong though, it is not linking to my website; the correct address being http://www.cambridge-photographer.co.uk/south-bay-pool-scarborough Many thanks, Douglas
Ah thank you for this Douglas – I do have the link correct once on my page about Scarborough Lidos. The link takes you to my page and then there is an alert to your link.
PORT SETON EXHIBITION
Do you have memories of Swimming at the old outdoor Pool at Port Seton, dancing in the Pond Hall or just checking the time on the Clock that once sat on top of the Pond Hall.
Why not pop along to Port Seton Library (during opening hours) to find out about the History of the Pond, Pond Halls and Dr Black, whose memory the clock was erected in.
The exhibition covers the period from the construction of the Pond in 1932 to the demolition of the buildings in 1995.
Started Monday 10th April 2017 @ Port Seton Library
Find out more about the Dr Black Memorial Clock project, can you help?
Muscle Men and Cool Dips
“already had few “old folk” in telling stories of Peter Heatley diving at the pond, I hope my memory is as sharp as theirs in 30 odd years time”
thanks Eric
Hi ……please does anyone else remember THE UPPER DECK swimming pool in EAst Molesey Surrey …..on towpath of rriver thames near Molesey lock and old pleasure grounds in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s …amazing I think privately owned timber decked with 2 slides sun terraces etc and a fountain at one end…I used to go there regularly with my family…I have som e historic frith prints of people looking over from sun deck to old husrst parl eracecource …close in 1962….unfortunately I have no old photos and cant find any on surrey archives!!
Photos of the First Swimming Pool in Kingsway Widnes on Waterloo Road.
https://www.lostlidos.co.uk/?ms_file=ms_14182.jpg
Picture of the Ladies Swimming Club 1915.
https://www.lostlidos.co.uk/?ms_file=ms_14181.jpg
Also after demolition.
https://www.lostlidos.co.uk/?ms_file=ms_14183.jpg
Photos of the new Widnes Kingsway Baths in Widnes
https://www.lostlidos.co.uk/?ms_file=ms_14178.jpg
Opened on Thursday 18th January 1962, and closed in 1978, after only just 16 years of useful life. I have heard that when the baths where being built in 1959 to 1961, the contractors used the wrong type of Concrete
After closure 1978
https://www.lostlidos.co.uk/?ms_file=ms_14184.jpg
Being demolished in 1979.
https://www.lostlidos.co.uk/files/2017/03/After-just-16-years-the-new-Widnes-Baths-being-demolished.jpg