Back with a splash!
Nearly a century after they first brought the pleasures of swimming to working-class communities, some community lidos are coming back to life for summer.
Cleveland Pools in Bath, and Albert Avenue in Hull, will be operating for the first time in decades, while the newly built Sea Lanes in Brighton is the UK’s first open-water swimming centre of excellence.
Outdoor pools fell out of favour in the 1960s as holidays abroad became affordable for the masses, but their modern comeback has been fuelled by people power and the popularity of cold-water swimming.
There are now
