London Fields Lido
Following our write up of the test swim, Mark Sesnan, chief exec of GLL (Greenwich Leisure Ltd) who will run London Fields Lido, writes
...more ---> ...I am happy to be able to inform you that the Lido will be open to the public from tomorrow morning. For further information, the pool will operate at 25 degrees celcius (not 22) and will not close during rain (except when visibility is unacceptable or lightning is forecast).
You may wish to include the link to the Lido timetable and prices from the www.gll.org web site as the times will vary dependant on daylight etc.
| London Fields Lido | 25 October 2006; 4:52:42 PM |# | | Discuss |
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London Fields Lido opened for "test swimming" on Sunday 22nd October having been closed since 1988. The lido is due to open to the public at the end of October. Andy Hoines, who co-edits the London section of www.lidos.org.uk, here records his experience.
This morning, my wife and I joined in the preview swim arranged for local organisations and swimming clubs. Despite it being a grey and drizzly autumn morning, by 10am there was an enthusiastic throng awaiting entry, including one in slightly inappropriate Hawaiian shorts and T-shirt! Others sported impressive swimming caps indicating that they were refugees from Tooting Bec, or were having a day off from swimming the channel!
With some nifty footwork, at 10:01, I managed to be the first to dive in! Unfortunately, despite the deep end being 1.8m and sloping to 2.0m, this is not allowed and I also became the first to be told off by the lifeguards!
| London Fields Lido | 24 October 2006; 3:46:43 PM |# | | Discuss |
There is new activity in Hackney on the London Fields Lido and Clissold Leisure Centre. At a consultation meeting in Hackney for the proposed works to finish and repair Clissold Leisure Centre London Fields Lido proposals [LINK] were available on posters and in a leaflet.
More details about the proposals are viewable HERE"
(Via Clissold Leisure Users' News.)
...more ---> ...| London Fields Lido | 22 January 2005; 10:16:26 PM |# | | Discuss |
| London Fields Lido | 16 November 2004; 11:12:33 AM |# | | Discuss (1 response) |
Hackney Council announced today that it plans to re-open London Fields Lido in time for summer 2006. They say they have set aside £2 million to fund the project as well as running costs of £200,000 a year. The council have already carried out a feasibility study and now intend to run public consultation and tendering process over the winter before commissioning the work to rebuild the lido as an outdoor facility.
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, align:right, border:1, width:320, height:220)}The London Fields User Group have been working with the Environment Trust and Market Sports for 4 years on an alternative plan that would have been self-funding. Mike Martin, chair of the group said today "The Environment Trust went to a lot of expense producing an excellent plan which has now been thrown away. However we have been fighting for the lido to open for 15 years and are delighted if this is now going to happen".
London Fields Lido closed in 1988 and local people stopped the buildings being demolished soon after - and have campaigned for its re-opening ever since. The site has been occupied for many years by squatters who at one time held music festivals and ran a cafe at the lido.
...more ---> ...| London Fields Lido | 27 October 2004; 12:14:22 PM |# | | Discuss |
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