Smeaton's Tower overlooks Tinside Pool, an unusual 1930s outdoor lido which sits upon the limestone shoreline at the base of the cliff.

Street has two public swimming pools, one indoor which is part of the Strode complex, and the outdoor lido, Greenbank.

The lido which had been built by Percy Hollier who intended it to be " Birmingham's brightest entertainment spot " and which included a 180 feet by 90 feet sized swimming pool as well as a putting green, lawn for archery and a children's playground, only operated for 3 years and was closed due to commercial failure.

The lido which had been built by Percy Hollier who intended it to be " Birmingham's brightest entertainment spot " and which included a 180 feet by 90 feet sized swimming pool as well as a putting green, lawn for archery and a children's playground, only operated for 3 years and was closed due to commercial failure.

There was also a lido ( now demolished ) and a permanent fun-fair which closed in 2007.

In late 2004, Wychavon District Council voted against the re-opening of the lido, which sparked a local campaign group to form, with the sole aim of seeing the lido restored.

Tooting Bec Lido was nearly closed as a result of Wandsworth council's financial cutbacks in the early 1990s which resulted in the closure of the borough's other lido at King George's Park.

Tourist attractions include the countryside, the lido and the airfields at Vaumeilh, La Motte-du-Caire and Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, which are dedicated to the sport of gliding.

This was the first time that anything like it had been seen in Europe and soon, the lido became " The Lido ", a byword for a beach resort.

Another notable building of the area was The Bath Tub open air lido ( now demolished ), opened on 1 July 1937 in Alvechurch Road where 20000 people had gathered to watch the opening ceremony by Gracie Fields with Mantovani and his orchestra and the M. P.

Another notable building of the area was The Bath Tub open air lido ( now demolished ), opened on 1 July 1937 in Alvechurch Road where 20000 people had gathered to watch the opening ceremony by Gracie Fields with Mantovani and his orchestra and the M. P.

For a hundred years from the mid-nineteenth century, Shirley had a racecourse, and this was supplemented by a public lido in Sansome Road, the Odeon Cinema on Stratford Road, and the public library in Church Road, all in the 1930s.

( In 1935 a lido had been built at Black Rock.

In June 1907 an open air swimming pool or ' lido ' opened, at a cost of just over £ 1, 600, built mainly by unemployed citizens.

London Fields sports a cricket pitch, lido ( the only heated outdoor 50 metre swimming pool in London ), grass areas, a small BMX track, tennis courts, a table tennis table and two children's play areas.

When the lido opened, it was marketed as the ' seaside come to Droitwich Spa ', and the pool was heated to exactly the same temperature as the Mediterranean Sea.

It was around this time that Tooting Bec's pool became a " lido " when the term became widely used in England.

Highley houses the Severn Centre, a sports and leisure complex complete with heated lido ( open-air swimming pool ) that also includes the local library.

Ruislip Lido was built as a feeder reservoir for the canal, but was eventually disconnected and changed to become a recreational lido.

There was a rare 1887 lido, for open-air all-weather swimming, at Keepers Pool.

But the lido closed in 2003 after arson, and was burned down entirely in 2004.

The lido management was put out for tender and two former council employees won the contract and reopened the lido in 1994.

In 1932 a lido was built on the seafront but it closed in 1993 and was listed Grade II in 2011.

The Strandbad Wannsee, an open-air lido with one of the longest inland beaches in Europe and a popular nudist area, was built in 1929-1930 after a concept by architect Richard Ermisch.

The lido was eventually closed in the 1970s after complaints of noise disturbance were made by residents of the newly built Oak Farm estate, coupled with new and stringent health and safety regulations relating to outdoor public swimming facilities.

Although now culverted for much of its route through Birmingham and often reduced to a sluggish trickle, due to changes in agricultural usage and other demands, the River Rea was once a major waterway and served several working mills in West Heath and provided water for the skating rink and open air lido ( now both demolished ).

Although now often reduced to a sluggish trickle, due to changes in agricultural usage and other demands, the River Rea was once a major waterway and served several working mills in West Heath and provided water for the skating rink and open air lido ( now both demolished ).

In 1926 Iles was responsible for the building of the Margate's lido on the seafront.

In the 1960s the park was home to “ Longley Baths ”, Sheffield ’ s most popular lido.

During the Second World War, the lido was closed, and its offices used by the military.

Replacing the lido in St. Johns Park, the Triangle is also used for conferences.

There is a fee for entering the lido, and changing rooms are available.

At that time, it served as the clubhouse and changing rooms for the acres of sports playing fields, several bowling greens, a fishing lake and an outdoor swimming lido, a natural mineral spring forming the source for the lido's healthy waters.

***" Ma che vi fece, o stelle " – " Sperai vicino il lido ," K. 368, recitative and aria for soprano and orchestra

Facilities like the Bathing Pond ( picture right ) — later superseded by the park lido — would have introduced many to swimming in an era when many public baths ( like that at Shacklewell ) were still simply communal washing facilities.

In the first half of the 20th century, the town attracted visitors from high society with a lido complete with palm trees, shopping with, Connaught Avenue, named after the Duke of Connaught and opened by his wife, being dubbed East Anglia's Bond Street, high class hotels along the Esplanade, a tennis tournament second only to Wimbledon ; the Prince of Wales frequented the golf club and Winston Churchill rented a house.

At Woodrolfe Creek the Woodup Pool is a public salt water lido, it opened in 1907.

Below and to the south of Kemp Town, at beach level, is now Brighton Marina and a proposed redevelopment at Black Rock, site of a former lido.

The Pells Pool, built in 1860, is the oldest freshwater lido in England.

The lido reopened as the Hillingdon Sports and Leisure Complex in 2010.

The Heath is rambling and hilly, embracing ponds, recent and ancient woodlands, a lido, playgrounds, and a training track, and it adjoins the stately home of Kenwood House and its grounds.

Brockwell Lido is a large lido in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London.

The lido closed in 1990 due to cost-saving measures by Lambeth Borough Council.

However this development is facing some opposition as it would involve filling in Grange-over-Sands lido and this is being contested.

However, it may have been still an island in the days of Homer, with a long " lido " or sandy peninsula that gradually became attached to the mainland, in a common geological process.

Other attractions of the village include the arcades, a go-kart track and the Rock Pool a tidal lido.