How long has the pool been there?

The pool was enormously popular from the day it was built in 1925, and this popularity with locals and holidaymakers alike continued for over 50 years. It began to lose favour in the late 70s with the introduction of cheap package holidays abroad, just as other British coastal holiday destinations lost out.

From 1986, it was used as a training pool for scuba diving and canoe clubs until funding was cut and it began to fall into disrepair – at which point it was ultimately closed to the public in 1996.

Shortly afterwards, the local authority demolished the ancillary buildings and bulldozed the rubble into the pool, at a cost of £200,000, before filling it with concrete and imported boulders to create an artificial ‘rock pool’.