…but not for long.
On Saturday “Hackney’s Urban Beach” will briefly reopen to accommodate all of those daft enough to go swimming over the cold rainy Easter break.
It will close (again) on Sunday, the 15th of April to allow work to continue on the ever-popular but essentially useless CCTV cameras, some sugary vending machines to offset whatever health benefit you get from swimming in the pool and the all important “queue control system”.
The lido has been resurrected by Hackney Council, which has invested £2.5million to return the derelict pool in to an art deco icon for residents and visitors to the borough.
Ultimately, there will be a seasonal roof that will increase access to more swimmers during the winter. Proposals for a seasonal roof are currently being developed and plans are to fit it in 2007.
The Lido first opened in April 1932. It closed during the Second World War, re-opening in 1951 before closing again in 1986 when the Greater London Council, which ran all the London municipal lidos at the time, was abolished. It opened again on Thursday 26 October 2006.
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