Tag: seaside
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The lido boom and bust: how Britain built, closed and saved its open-air pools
In the 1930s Britain built lidos; from the 1970s it closed them; since 2000 some have come back. I built an open register of 73 lidos: 33 of 49 dated openings came in the 1930s, and 14 closed pools have reopened.
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Did the railway invent the seaside?
Britain’s seaside resorts were already growing 1.6% a year before any railway reached them. The line brought a burst in the decade it opened, and did most for resorts that had been slow before.
