Aldershot Lido closed at seasons end

Aldershot Lido
The Aldershot Lido was reputed to be "the largest and finest open-air bathing pool in the country". Opened in the spring of 1930, it contained one and a half million gallons of water and covered some 10 acres of leisure area.
The site of the Lido was originally a lake which was situated close to an old house in the Aldershot Park Estate. The Council purchased the estate in 1920 for £21,000. The lake, which had deteriorated since the 1880s, was described as a "fine sheet of water" - it had become overgrown with weeds, the banks had crumbled and it was overhung with trees. The Borough Council decided to convert it into a bathing pool and this was one of the council's major improvement projects of the 1920s. The old house was demolished, the lake was drained, considerable excavations were made, and the pool connected with the necessary filtering plant, dressing rooms and other amenities, including the pleasant lawns and terraces around the pool, at a cost of nearly £20,000. In
1948 the pool hosted the Modern Pentathlon of the XIV Olympiad.
(Rushmoor Information).
There is current debate on the future and possible development of this public facility.

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