![]() The Trinkie Outdoor Sea-Water Swimming Pool.Billinghay Community Open Air Swimming Pool.Step Rock Tidal Pool, St Andrews (visible but not accessible).Plymouth Tinside Art Deco Lido (picture above).University of Exeter outdoor pool (Cornwall House on Streatham Campus).Newtrain Bay seawater rock pool (picture above).Bude Open Air Sea-Water Pool (picture at top of article).We have restricted our list to coastal counties in the UK and so some pools may still be some distance from the actual sea. Here we list not only the original Lidos but also tidal seawater swimming pools and newer open-air swimming pools that are still running and at the mercy of the UK weather. Often the revival is by local groups running as charities or by volunteering time. Sadly, many lidos and tidal pools sank into decline decades ago, falling out of favour with swimmers but now many are being revived with the new demand for open-air swimming. But those nervous by the prospect of swimming in the open sea are embracing the prospect of being able to swim in coastal tidal pools. The popularity of open water or wild swimming is growing all the time. In this period it became as essential for a seaside town to have a lido as it had been to have a pier in the late 1800s. ![]() The main Lido building period was in the 1930s when outdoor swimming became popular, and 169 were built across the UK.
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