Cleveland Pools seems to have been plucked from the pages of a Jane Austen novel or an episode of 'Bridgerton.'
pool has not always looked so picturesque. It reopened last weekend, welcoming swimmers for the first time in almost 40 years -- the culmination of an 18-year, community-led campaign, with a renovation costing more than £9 million .The 100 lucky swimmers -- who had all entered a competition to be there -- braved the unheated water under the last rays of the summer sunshine, enjoying the 25-meter , crescent-shaped main pool, and a smaller, shallower splash pool.
Its earliest swimmers, according to a local-history research paper, paid a yearly subscription fee and included an Arctic explorer, clockmakers, surgeons, architects, bankers and a lawmaker. It shut in 1978 and, despite short-lived attempts to revive it, closed permanently to swimming in 1984. For a time, the pool was used as a trout farm before it fell into disrepair and was put up for sale by the local council in 2003.
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