Skegness outdoor pool

[Cider]

in the 70's i remember there was a small outdoor paddling pool in skegi, is it stil there, also there was a large outdoor swimming pool, which was built in the 20's, i dont think that is there any more, any idea when the large pool closed. Thanks

[Mr Veritas]

This is from a website about outdoor swimming pools in the UK:~
Skegness: Embassy Outdoor Swimming Pool

Grand Parade, Skegness, Lincolnshire PE25 2UG

35m Outdoor pool, was open in the Summer only.

"The laying out of Skegness foreshore with formal gardens, swimming baths and boating lakes took place in the 1930s. The 1930s lido was closed in the 1980s, to be replaced by another 50 yards away. There is also a large paddling pool."

An indoor pools adjoins the outdoor pool.

[Buenchico]

In the 1970s there would have been two outdoor paddling pools in Skegness. If you arrived on the seafront by walking down the main shopping street, and turned right (walking across the big car park at that point) you'd soon come to the Fairy Dell paddling pool. It's still there and it's recently been revamped.

History here:
http://www.skegnessstandard.co.uk/CustomPages/ CustomPage.aspx?PageID=46872

'Before' and 'After' pics here:
http://www.skegnessstandard.co.uk/CustomPages/ CustomPage.aspx?PageID=59018

The other seafront paddling pool was reached by turning to the left when you arrived at the seafront. You'd walk past the fairground areas, and the bowling greens before coming to the pool, which was just before the gardens where visors could take small boats around the 'river'. The pool was plainer than Fairy Dell (with no fountain) and much less popular. I don't know whether it's still there. (It's probably not; I know that a great deal of redevelopment has happened at that end of Skeggy).

Here's a recent picture of the Embassy Outdoor Swimming Pool:
http://skegnessvideo.com/2009/07/embassy-outdo or-swimming-pool/

Chris

Stop press!!
I've just found this link which refers to the 'other' paddling pool as the Sunshine Paddling Pool, which has been closed and developed into a garden feature. There's also more about the Fairy Dell pool:
http://skegnessvideo.com/2007/05/fairy_dell/