Dylan Taylor <thefishstation@...> wrote to Oliver on Sunday 1st August ... Either contact him direct, or suggest possible pools to this Yahoo Group and I...
The Trust running the Portishead Pool in Somerset is considering an inflatable cover for the pool; it would cost in the region of £30,000 This would obviously...
Subsidised Swimming at Beccles Lido: If you read the article, it mentions the NHS Small Grants Fund who contributed £5,000 and the Lovewell Blake Fund...
Welcome to John Wilson who lives in East Finchley, London. He writes: "My interest in Lidos started with childhood summer afternoons spent at Parliament Hill...
I have recently written two articles about the closure of the Brynaman Pool this summer. Please see the Outdoor Swimming Society website for the article...
Just came across this press release from Aberdeenshire Council, dated 21 May 2010, to create a lobster breeding hatchery at Tarlair Pool, near Macduff. ...
Alex Dunlop did a short film on last night's BBC1 Look East about the re-opening of the Beccles Lido. You can watch it for a few more hours, today only, by...
Welcome to Maurice Salton, who lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He contacted me a few months ago hoping someone might identify the outdoor pools used in the film...
Have just come back from Beccles after an extremely happy afternoon, attending the opening of the Beccles Lido. Interviewed as many people as possible,...
Nothing in the Sunday Times this week, that I can see, about Beccles Lido. However there is an article about Lewis Pugh, entitled The Ice Man Swimmeth....
David Levett, Chairman of North Hertfordshire District Council, wrote to me: "It may be of interest to you that the open air pool in Letchworth Garden City is...
The BBC Four TV documentary 'Wild Swimming with Alice Roberts' aired last week, has led to record sales of wild swimming books. Roger Deakin's Waterlog sold...
Yes it may sound too good to be true,but uxbridge lido are presently offering free swimming in the lido, as the indoor pool is currently closed due to...
Take an open air pool, put in in an inflatable shed what do you get? and indoor pool! What do we like? outdoor pools! What do we hate? Indoor pools! Indoor...
of course that should read you do not need a big polythene shed! ... From: Grahame Hadden <grahame.hadden@...> Subject: Re: [lidos] Inflatable cover...
Article in the Spectator (July 30th 2010) written by journalist Becky Horsburgh, under the heading of ARCHITECTURE: LONG LIVE THE LIDO The main focus is on the...
Hi there Outdoor Swimmers. For those who don't take the Sunday Times and therefore missed the 'Pick of the Day' article in the Culture Section by John Dugdale....
Dear Grahame, Hampton Pool is great. I've swum there several times, but it is heated. And what do some of us like? Outdoor pools that are not heated! As for...
Hi Peter Less of the old but I will take "marvellous", "geezers" and even "pussycats"!! All the best Bob (and also Dave in his absence) From: Peter Stechman ...
Bob & Dave et al, This was a strange but fascinating doco film with swimmer Martin Strels and his team[?] I bet you didn't have people like them around with...
Opening today at the Brockwell Park Lido Cafe, a photographic exhibition called Equitable Water, that records the work in India of a UK charity by the same...
Hi Peter I am glad you enjoy your swims at Hampton Pool , but note your enthusiam for cold water! I spent my childhood swimming in coastal waters around...
Just to add to Graham's thoughts, when Dave and I swam in every UK lido in 2007/08, it was very noticeable that those that were heated had the greatest number...
Welcome to Lara Selmassi who lives in Bridgend, South Wales, but is moving to the Milton Keynes area. She also visits Poole in Dorset regularly. A busy mum,...
Welcome to Simon Duffin, who lives in Bromley, Kent. He writes: "I have fond memories of going to Southampton Lido and Albert Avenue Lido in Hull before I...
Hi Lara Whenever you are down in Poole you are welcome to join members of East Dorset Open Water Swimming Club in a swim from Shore Road beach (next to the...
This week Uxbridge Lido celebrates 75 years since it's opening in 1935. The pool has been spectacularly refurbished as part of the new Hillingdon Sports and...
