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Ware Lido

Childhood Memories

By S Williams

Along with many other other Ware residents, I leant to swim in the lido's baby pool when I was about 6 years old. We used to go there a lot in the summer and would be there all day eating ice creams from the little kiosk (which is still open). The big pool always had dead wasps in it and the bottom was really rough and you'd cut your feet. I think its been tiled now!

The lido is open for a short time in the summer and the diving boards have long gone. This view dates from the 50s when it was in its heyday.

The lido in 1957

Franis Frith

This page was added by S Williams on 10/06/2010.

Comments about this page

This great photo coincides with the Lido opening next week - 3 weeks earlier this year than usual - on Saturday 11th June. We hope to see many people there this summer!

By Nel Watson
On 14/06/2011

Apologies for the pedantry but it was never called a lido in the 1950s or 60s. It was always just "the swmming pool".

By Steve King
On 21/02/2012

Thanks so much for uploading this photo. In my childhood days the poor place was further downgraded in name to "Ware Baths" in the 1940s and early 1950s! But it was THE place to go. (By the way, I don't think the phrase "swimming pool" was even heard of in those times!)

By Claire Crook
On 26/07/2012