Open-air baths, St Annes on Sea

Open-air baths, St Annes on Sea
Open-air baths, St Annes on Sea
Open-air baths, St Annes on Sea
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Open-air baths, St Annes on Sea
St Annes on Sea
Alternatively known as The Roman Baths, the swimming pool was opened in 1916 and had closed down in the mid-1980s. It was often used as a venue for bathing beauty competitions in the 1950s.

"Open-air swimming bath, St Annes, is a fine open air filtered sea-water bath, open in 1916 from a design by Fred Harrison of Accrington. The bath is 80 yards long by 40 yards wide....."

From Barrett's Directory of Blackpool and the Fylde 1929.

This image is a copy taken from the collection of glass negatives in St Annes Library.
Glass slide, negative
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c. 1920
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