Jason Cobb, a lido enthusiast, cyclist, photographer and author of of a blog called the Onion Bag Blog takes in Brockwell, the Serpentine, London Fields and...
Photographer Gigi Cifali has shot a series of photos entitled "Absence of Water" which includes both indoor and outdoor pools. I am not a photography historian...
"Drained London" also provides a link to Cifali's photos with quotes from J.G. Ballard on pools around the world. http://www.ballardian.com/drained-london...
Cottenham Pool in Cambridgeshire is currently struggling with a lack of lifeguards and consequently having to close the pools on some days. If you can help in...
Chipping Norton Lido is offering free summer evening sessions to young people aged 11 - 18 years on Tuesdays during June, July and August. The sessions are...
Broomhill Pool has been vandalized again, this time with people breaking in to the changing rooms underneath the pool and smashing one of the glass portholes. ...
... Sorry for this junk mail - I have temporarily suspended Jason's membership & it looks as though someone has hacked into his hotmail account. Oliver Oliver...
In reply to my question about the the Identification of New Bathing Waters (if a site is on private land and/or a local authority is not prepared to make an...
Southwark Lido will be "an exciting temporary lido, being created by acclaimed French architecture collective EXYZT and filmmaker Sara Muzio, will appear on...
Eileen Silcocks, from Gourock, Scotland, wrote to Oliver: After hearing about recent books on open-air swimming, I came across your website, and it prompted me...
Welcome to Nigel Hunt, who lives in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. He writes: "I am campaigning to have the Rivacre Valley Open Air Baths re-built here in Ellesmere...
I have received the following message from Bob O'Neill who has been campaigning for many years to save the Kings Meadow Baths in Reading:- Hi I am writing to...
This is the complete link for the article from the Reading newspaper which gives you the chance to both vote and comment on the future of the Kings Meadow...
Welcome to Luigi 'Gigi' Cifali, who lives in Tufnell Park, London. Oliver He writes: "I used to live close to a wonderful pool now demolished called Hornsey ...
Over the past year or more a company has been working with Cambridge City Council on the future of Jesus Green (park), and also the outdoor swimming pool....
Lido blog about the Clifton Lido in Bristol that I haven't come across before. Click on "older post" each time if you want to read about all the preparations....
The Outdoor Pool at Addlestone Leisure Centre, Surrey, will not be open this summer, while new funding sources are being sought. Oliver Here's some familiar...
If your swimming pool or lido plays a part in school sport at all, then do consider entering the 2008 School Sport Matters Awards run by the Daily Telegraph...
I thought the Lidos Group would like to know that campaigners for a junior school pool (the Gayton Community Junior School Pool) have won an amazing David and...
Dave and I are now embarking on the final stages of our lido challenge to swim a mile in every open public UK lido. There were 98 listed in Janet Smith's...
Journalist Tom de Castella reviews both Kate Rew's book (Wild Swim) and Daniel Start's book "Wild Swimming" and pays tribute to the writer Roger Deakin, the...
Dear Oliver Lido film watchers may have missed the fascinating programme shown on BB4 9pm on Wed 16 July. Rosie Newman's Scottish travels and colour film in...
Yes, I caught this on BBC4 too. You can watch it again, with BBC iPlayer see http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00cl57m The lido shown is at North Berwick...
When Broomhill was open I remember swallows, swifts(?) swooping down again and again over the open water (they had a 55 yard "runway") and since its been...
The sea water Rock Pool in Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland has re-opened after a health scare over e-coli proved unfounded. The Friends of the Rock...
Jez Stevens wrote to Oliver on 25 July 2008 ... http://www.hilsea-lido.co.uk Its future may be uncertain but memories of Hilsea Lido will live on thanks to a...
... There is a tidal pool at Table Rocks, Cullercoats, near Tynemouth which is 66 ft by 48 ft (or 19m by 14m) with a depth of approximatly 1.4 metres. For its...
