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I have received some wonderful info on Malvern Park Lido from Darren. These will placed on my "Lost Lidos" website. I'm giving the site a facelift, and I'll save for then. The info deserves to be placed on new and sparkling pages!. Thank you Darren
 
Hello everyone. Fantastic memories here. Perhaps you may allow me to quote on my Lost Lidos Site? However this won't be for a while. I'm totally reconstructing it and it'll take me months and months and monthhhhhhhs. I'm so involved with other things -as everyone else is - my signatures explain all.
I'll place a link to a Utube video - where I took a trip down memory lane. This is where I travelled from Woodcock Street Baths to my competitions in Tamworth.
Excuse the silly commentary but I was focussing on what I could see, rather than what I could speak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic5V1953Mikhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic5V1953Mik
It was a lovely relaxing day, and much how I remember it, apart from the concrete. Anne
 
Thanks very much for posting the photo of the inside of the swimming baths at Brookvale Park. Now I have a complete memory of this both inside and out from the photos on this site.My father and his brothers would walk across the allotments from Wyreley Road to swim in this pool. It looks great and I don't think there was anything like it around the area at the time. By the time I came along it was just a concrete wall basically and in a very delapidated condition.
 
I'm glad the picture is of interest - I was gobsmacked to find that there was a lido in Brookvale Park - it must have been demolished years ago, I don't recall it at all .
 
I posted the outside pic of BROOKVALE LIDO some time ago on this tread cannot find it at the momenr?
The one inside is just great
 
Great input on Lost Lidos. Haven't got around the refurbishing my Lost Lidos Site, but I will one day. New pools, new baths, new memories - it's great to read them.
 
dek carr said:
Has anyone any memories of the outdoor lido in Knowle i think it was behind the Greswold Hotel i used to go there to do electrical repairs late 50s . Dek
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Yes, my mum used to take us to the lido behind the Greswolde, back in the 50s, Dek. I remember the water chute on the left-hand side, facing the diving boards, and my awe in watching people dive off the boards. (I was a very mediocre swimmer.)

I think parents worried about whether polio could be spread from infection via swimming-baths. That was the great scourge of the time.

Angela
 
paul stacey said:
I remember the Bournville lido well late 50's early 60's is it still open??
paul
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Bournville lido was demolished a long time ago, it is now a housing development.The other part of the recreation area still exists, the fishing pools and the pavilion etc.
 
I stumbled across this thread this evening. I see mention of Shirley Lido. I remember a photograph - I think I was in it when very young when it was still very much an attraction.

I did wander around the former pool site a few times in the late 1940's thinking what a shame - nay disaster - that such a great facility have been destroyed. I was told, by more than one adult, that the pool was rendered unusable at the beginning, or thereabouts, of WW2. The concern was that bomber aircraft might use the pool as a landmark. However St. James The Great Parish Church was very close; it would serve equally as well during daylight hours a landmark as would the North Warwickshire railway line heading southwards from Birmingham city centre.

Whoever thought
 
Radiorails said:
I stumbled across this thread this evening. I see mention of Shirley Lido. I remember a photograph - I think I was in it when very young when it was still very much an attraction.

I did wander around the former pool site a few times in the late 1940's thinking what a shame - nay disaster - that such a great facility have been destroyed. I was told, by more than one adult, that the pool was rendered unusable at the beginning, or thereabouts, of WW2. The concern was that bomber aircraft might use the pool as a landmark. However St. James The Great Parish Church was very close; it would serve equally as well during daylight hours a landmark as would the North Warwickshire railway line heading southwards from Birmingham city centre.

Whoever thought
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It looked a lovely place judging by the photographs. A little haven. When I walked around the site about 3 years ago, it had become an engineering company. I made out certain areas of the original building, and with imagination could assemble the lido in my mind. I have photos and a page on Shirley Lido on my "Lost Lidos" Website. Anne
 
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Hi Anne,I don't have any photos but I do have a couple of evening mail cuttings showing Row Heath lido,which I presume is the same one.One picture shows the lido in 1972,not used but in good nick and the other shows a recent picture with the lido overgrown,full of rain water and filled with lots of rubbish,a sorry sight indeed.I went to Kings Norton Grammar School for boys in the 50's and I can remember us holding the summer swimming galas there,in fact I won a bronze medal in the two lengths backstroke.I don't know what to suggest about the pictures as they are stuck in a scrap book,but if you think of anything please let me know.
Dave
 
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Brum Burgin said:
Hi Anne,I don't have any photos but I do have a couple of evening mail cuttings showing Row Heath lido,which I presume is the same one.One picture shows the lido in 1972,not used but in good nick and the other shows a recent picture with the lido overgrown,full of rain water and filled with lots of rubbish,a sorry sight indeed.I went to Kings Norton Grammar School for boys in the 50's and I can remember us holding the summer swimming galas there,in fact I won a bronze medal in the two lengths backstroke.I don't know what to suggest about the pictures as they are stuck in a scrap book,but if you think of anything please let me know.
Dave
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Thank you for this. it was a very pleasant pool, and even saw a Swimming International at one point. How sad that a place of such "paradise" can be rubbished away. The cuttings sound very interesting. I'm wondering if you could copy them. Would this be easy laying the cuttings book into a copier. it could then be scanned. Do you do this? Or they could be staight scanned onto a computer and saved onto desktop and serve as an attachment for any info posted onto a forum. Thanks so much for the information
 
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Anne Jessel said:
Thank you for this. it was a very pleasant pool, and even saw a Swimming International at one point. How sad that a place of such "paradise" can be rubbished away. The cuttings sound very interesting. I'm wondering if you could copy them. Would this be easy laying the cuttings book into a copier. it could then be scanned. Do you do this? Or they could be staight scanned onto a computer and saved onto desktop and serve as an attachment for any info posted onto a forum. Thanks so much for the information
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Hi i Remember the Rowheath lido and i used to be in there all summer and i used to play in the park too it was my hangout as a kid. I lived in selly oak road from 1968 and my father passed in 2007 he still lived there. The lido was brill back then its such a shame it was demolished and turned into a housing estate, many happy hour spent there, i will ask my mates see if anyone has any pictures. One of my friends parent back in the late 70s maybe very early 80s im not sure tried to reopen it. Keith Reuben
 
A lost lido in Trowbridge Wiltshire, now a Tesco I think. I was 21 and stationed at nearby RAF Melksham in 1957. I learnt to swim there on the day these photos were taken, one minute I could not swim next minute I could.
We've lost a few Lidos in the Birmingham area as they have everywhere. I did post the top photo in the Kingstanding thread and challenged the Baron to find me in the pic - took him a few minutes !
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I have now posted up Malvern Park Lido with info sent by Darren on my refurbished sites https://www.lostlidos.co.uk/2012/07/27/malvern-park-lido-1954/ and https://www.soyouwantto.co.uk/malvernpark.html

Also more on The Bath Tub https://www.lostlidos.co.uk/2012/07/06/birmingham-the-bath-tub-1937/ and https://www.soyouwantto.co.uk/thebathtub-birmingham.html

My sister in Solihull has researched the Shirley Lido and the Greswolde Lido for me - (I researched some but I needed more info and I persuaded her to visit Brum Library) and I shall be picking up this weekend when I'm visiting her in Solihull

If you would comment directly on my sites it would be good otherwise may I ask your permission to quote any comments (with acknowledgements) on my sites?
 
Looking forward to the info on the Greswolde Lido. Only saw it from the outside a relative of my first wife used to run the Greswolde Hotel in the Thirties. Not sure if the two were linked?
 
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As far as I am aware this is the Lido at the Greswolde in Knowle.
 

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Bernie D'Boult said:
Looking forward to the info on the Greswolde Lido. Only saw it from the outside by my first wife's relative used to run the Greswolde Hotel. Not sure if the two were linked?
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Just arrived back from Solihull. My sister has got just what I want on The Greswolde Lido! plus extra info on Shirley Lido. I shall be entering the info on the website this week. I need to find out if the Lido was linked to the hotel, because as you see on an aerial view, I have laid the pool a little way behind the hotel by way of deduction from Google 1945 and it is more along Crab Mill Lane.
I've set her the task of finding interior shots of Rolphe Street Baths now, plus history of Grove Lane Baths Handsworth Birmingham. Also she took me to Malvern Park today where we looked for, and saw the pool site -although Darren sent me lots of interesting info which I had already uploaded.
 
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