LIQUID ASSETS by Janet Smith - "the bible of lidos history"

Bibliographic information:

Janet Smith
Liquid Assets - the lidos and open air swimming pools of Britain
London, English Heritage / Malavan Media, July 2005
ISBN-10: 0954744500
ISBN-13: 978-0954744502
paperback, 160 pp., 21 x 21cm

To Buy a Copy of this book.

To speak to the author, Janet Smith, please contact Jackie Spreckley (or ring +44 20 7794 5509) at Malavan Media.

The book contains no Index, so I have compiled an Index to places (PDF).

Content

The book includes Case Studies on:

A. POOLS STILL OPEN

• Brockwell Park Lido, London 1937
• Guildford Lido 1933
• Hilsea Lido, Portsmouth 1935 (closure threatened)
• Parliament Hill Fields Lido, London 1938
• Penzance (Jubilee Pool) 1935
• Peterborough Lido 1936
• Saltdean Lido 1938
• Sandford Parks Lido, Cheltenham 1935
• Stonehaven Open Air Pool 1934
• Tinside Lido, Plymouth 1935
• Tooting Bec Lido, London 1906

B. CLOSED POOLS

• Barry (The Knap Bathing Pool) 1926-1997
• Blackpool (Open Air Baths) 1923-1981
• Cliftonville (Margate Lido) 1927-1977
• Croydon (Purley Way Lido) 1935-1979
• Edinburgh (Portobello Bathing Pool) 1936-1979
• Finchley Lido, London 1931-1993
• Hastings (St Leonard’s Bathing Pool) 1933-1986
• Ipswich (Broomhill Pool) 1938-2002
• Larkswood Pool, London 1936-1987
• Morecambe (Super Swimming Stadium) 1936-1975
• New Brighton (The Bathing Pool) 1934-1990
• Scarborough (South Bay Bathing Pool) 1915-1989
• Southport (Sea Bathing Lake) 1928-1989
• Uxbridge Lido, London 1935-1998 (reopening soon)
• Victoria Park Lido, London 1936-1989
• Weston-super-Mare (Bathing Pool) 1937-2000

In addition the following pools are Featured:

Fellow’s Pool, Emmanuel College, Cambridge 1690-
Peerless Pool, London 1743-1850
Cleveland Baths, Bath 1815-1984 (reopenable)
Clifton Pool, Bristol 1850-1990 (reopenable)
Banbury Baths (proposed in 1855)
Southampton Baths 1853-1977
Pells Pool, Lewes 1860-
Serpentine, London (1864 Swimming Club)
Cirencester Pool 1870-
King’s Meadow Baths, Reading 1879-1974 (reopenable)
Burlington Street Free Open Air Baths, Liverpool 1895-1940s
Highgate Ponds 1920s
Hampton Pool, 1922-
Prestatyn Bathing Pool 1923-?
London Fields Lido 1932-1988 (reopened 2006)
Ingleton Pool 1933-
Chagford Pool 1934-
Hathersage Pool 1934-
Droitwich Spa Lido 1935-2000 (reopened 2007)
Greenbank Pool, Street 1937-
Charlton Lido, London 1939-
Oasis, London 1946-
Arundel Lido 1960-

At the back there is

• A directory of every 20th century "Defunct Lido" that ever existed
• A list of "Operating Lidos" (except those in N. Ireland and the Channel Islands)

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Oliver Merrington 
August 2005, updated May 2008.