Hiya Lidos people, I hereby decree that any gathering of two or more members of the Lidos History Society (ie this Yahoo Group) constitutes a meeting of the...
Sadly, Mary Cane will not be there! I can do the Friday swims of the great swim but not the Saturday ones...next year perhaps, also I am very embroiled in the...
mary cane
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Aug 3, 2004 2:15 pm
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I think there might have been facilities in the River Trent in Nottingham. The Lenton local History Society (contact 0115 970 3891) might have more details as...
Dan Lucas
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Aug 3, 2004 6:46 pm
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... From: Heather M Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 6:10 PM ... swimming ... wonderful ... on ... years ... replaced by the Lido in Broadway in 1960, and the...
shamefully i do not know of the "big swim". due to availability of hinksey in Oxford in the summer i tend to loose contact with the serpentine i ( for me the...
Mary, see also Message 359 - PH Lido officially opened on 20 August 1938. There is nothing in the opening brochure about being inaugurated by someone famous,...
According to the Camden New Journal of 14.8.03, the Hollywood actor Tyrone Power opened Parliament Hill Lido. (Apparently "most famous for his role as...
Janet Smith
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Aug 5, 2004 11:30 am
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This reference to Tyrone Power is repeated in an article titled "Swimming in the Rain" by Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian on 14 June 1999. The LCC opening...
Yourinfo. Is ok! Did you look on www.soyouwantto.co.uk Highgate Ponds Also the ITN archive on the site showing the Olympic team in action from the diving...
Anne Jessel
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Aug 6, 2004 3:55 pm
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Janet, thanks that is really helpful. I am expecting to bury myself in newspaper archives for the next part of my research but my dissertation deadline is...
mary cane
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Aug 7, 2004 9:46 am
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Anne thanks, I love the website but find it a bit confusing ! (Still got brain lag from day one of the great swim) now back to the grindstone. Thanks for your...
mary cane
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Aug 7, 2004 9:55 am
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Dear Mary, Good luck with your writing. http://www.soyouwantto.co.uk/Highflyers.html Click over the 3 pages There is a reference to ITN clip.(left hand...
Anne Jessel
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Aug 8, 2004 8:37 am
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Please help us Save Our Open-Air Baths, on http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/G625 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/G625> just by casting a vote! Thanks - Anne...
Anne Jessel
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Aug 8, 2004 10:19 am
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/G625 Please help us Save our pool by casting your votes. Anne -- ... This message was sent to you using the "Email a friend"...
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Aug 9, 2004 8:04 am
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It was sweltering hot in Paris last weekend, so the art galleries, museums and boutiques were not visited, but the local lidos were! 1) Le Bassin de Baignade...
Sunday 05 September is the last planned day of this year's season at Hoddesdon Open Air Pool. On this day from 18:00-21:00, there will also be the traditional...
This attractive outdoor pool in High Beech, near Chingford in Essex, is now definitely open to the public. Due to staffing costs, it will only be open on...
there is another floating lido. in lugano (switzerland). it has a changing room and a partially tiled floor area in a small pool. the main swimming area is in...
This complex, with a 6 lane 33.3m main pool (& no diving boards as per normal nowadays), as well as children's and toddler's pools and extensive lawns was...
Dear Oliver I have received a small packaged from the Nederlands directed to the Lido History Society, could you forward an address for me to send it direct to...
Just an update on the Cleveland lido in Bath. the council have withdrawn this from sale pending a review. The Landmark Trust is now interested in the site,...
Dear Lido group, I'm trying to put together a list of lidos closed in britain since 1997 - wonder if anyone can help - I've already consulted Andy Hoines and...
Liz <pool@...> wrote:Dear Lido group, I'm trying to put together a list of lidos closed in britain since 1997 - wonder if anyone can help - I've already...
I forgot about Banbury - I have also been told on the phone that the outdoor pool was not to open this year after problems with the pool's lining, which has...
ruislip lido was not operational for swimming when i first visited, i think in the early 90s. the pool area and changing were still intact but derelict.the...
you may have read that wallingford (oxfordshire) was to be closed. following a very strong local campaign it is now not only open, but to be refurbished. this...
A warm welcome to Elaine McCombe who lives in Bryansford, County Down, N.I. She writes: "I am the Vice-chair of a support group called Friends of the Rock...
A warm welcome to Simon Moses, who lives in Hove, Sussex. He writes: "I'm a design history graduate, and I have built several web pages about various art deco...
Yesterday afternoon I was able to visit the outdoor pool at the Kings Oak pub in High Beech (also sometimes referred to as "High Beach"). The pool retains many...
I swam in the Ashby de la Zouch outdoor pool in August 2002, so it was certainly open that summer but it could of course have closed since. Also, Shaftesbury...
