Downstream

meeting the same sorry fate
of many of the country’s
lidos.
Some twenty years earlier
the King’s Meadow men’s
pool had also closed, having
been filled in and turned into
a builders’ yard. In the mid-
1970s this in turn was
demolished and replaced with
housing. When in 1974 the
women’s pool was closed in
order for new filtration units
to be installed, it was never