Liquid Assets
Subtitle: The Lidos and Open Air Swimming Pools of Britain
Contributors: Simon Inglis (Editor)
Publisher: English Heritage
Published: January 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780954744502
Subjects: Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc; Water sports & recreations; History - General; Architecture; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Great Britain; History; Pictorial works; Swimming pools
Description: In this volume, Smith traces the development of Britain's suprisingly rich stock of lidos, starting with their muddy beginnings in London's parks, through their fashionable heyday in the Thirties, to their battle for survival today.