Lidos

[kvalidir]

Slightly random question (there is a reason) but any personal recommendations for Lidos that are either still open or closed but still in existence, or stories or personal anecdotes attached to Lidos. I've just had a suggestion put to me which I'm quite keen on and i'm trying to grow the initial idea. x

[retrocop]

I recall all the lidos I have visited, both as a kid myself,and later with my own kids all sold Bovril to drink in the Cafeteria and Oxo flavoured crisps.

[Patsy33]

Three one close to us in Cheltenham. Sandford parks. The largest in the country I believe. Went there years ago when children were small.

[Patsy33]

^^^^
There was one ....

[murraymints]

hornsey lido london...used to spend a lot of the summer there

[kvalidir]

Brilliant, thank you all x

[237SJ]

I remember tidal pools which you could call a lido I suppose. They were Victorian built, built on the beach and when the tide went out it left a saltwater pool to swim in. I remember being fascinated by them. There was one at Ilfracombe and also Lynmouth.

[-SharonA-]

Minty, you in Hornsey, you could not have been far from me!

[Cloverjo]

Lovely to see Pasta's posting about Plymouth lido being restored. When I was a student there in the late 80s it was still derelict. On our first night my new friends and I wandered down to the Hoe and sat there chatting for hours getting to know each other. We were saying how lovely it would be if it was restored.

It was a place where lots of homeless people congregated. I hope they found somewhere to go.

Sorry, kval, not the kind of stories you were hoping for, I guess, but your post sparked memories.

[marval]

I remember the one in Kingsbury.

I used to take a little boy I looked after to this on in Hyde Park.

https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/hyde-park/things-to-see-and-do/sports-and-leisure/serpentine-lido

[kvalidir]

No that sort of anecdote is fine Clover :)
These are great, thank you all :)

[sherrardk]

Don't remember going here but I may well have done as a child - another saved Lido https://www.rctcbc.gov.uk/EN/Resident/SportsandLeisure/Lido/AboutLido/AboutLido.aspx

[murraymints]

Sharon ..was in Haringey...off green lanes

[jakep]

https://www.better.org.uk/leisure-centre/london/greenwich/charlton-lido

This was my local at least fifty years ago. From memory just the pool surrounded by a ‘pavement type patio’ all the way round.
At the shallow end was an all glass cafe.
During the school holidays we would take a packed lunch with bottles of diluted squash. Very rarely we were allowed to buy an ice cream in the cafe.
I remember the pool surround got very hot in the sun!

[-SharonA-]

I lived in Tottenham when I first got married, early 80's not far from Green Lanes.

[EDDIE51]

Is there a difference between a Lido and a swimming pool?As far as I can see they are the same thing.

[EDDIE51]

I used to work in Green Lanes Tottenham .No sign of a Lido though . This was in 1970 1973.

[Meg]

My grandkids go to the Stonehaven lido then jump off the harbour wall into the North Sea.