London’s lidos are swimming in history
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London’s lidos are swimming in history
Established in 1919 in a flooded limestone quarry, Henleaze Swimming Club was absolutely of its time. Sited in the middle of a newly developing, affluent suburb of Bristol, this open-air swimming club was considered progressive because it was open to women members from the start. The club was, in part, a response to the public appetite for... See more
New book celebrates 100 years of Henleaze Swimming Club – Outdoor Swimming Society
Unlike most indoor baths unbuilt during the Victorian and Edwardian period, Britain’s open air pools emerged at a time when mixed bathing was becoming more widely acceptable.
by the early 1930s, outdoor public swimming pools had become an emblem of municipal modernity and of faith in a brighter, more enlightened future, in much the same ways as public libraries had become a generation or two earlier. - liquid assets, p.19