There was a discussion today with lots of callers on the Roger Phillips phone in regarding Liverpool's lost open air baths with people recalling Burlington st, Mansfield St, Bootle etc with side issues concerning other open water bathing such as the scaldies down by Tate & Lyle in the canal or up by the tar works in Litherland.

Of course New Brighton was mentioned and I also remember rock ferry.

There was also of course Cornwallis street salt water baths but this was enclosed. I notice there are also threads about Crosby baths and Garston baths already existing here.

Here are some from the port cities site.

http://www.mersey-gateway.org/server.php?search_word=OPEN+AIR+SWIMMING+BATHS+POO LS&change=SearchResults


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I'm puzzled by those photos.
Steble Street is now called Park Road Sports Centre, but the Baths weren't open-air.
There were open-air baths in Gore Street (opened in 1898), but they were near Mill Street, and I don't think they would have looked as 'modern' as the second photo, or so 'rural'.
http://www.mersey-gateway.org/server.php?show=conMediaFile.23788

Steble street baths. This is where I learnt my kids to swim. It was where they went with the school so it was known to them and so easier and the water also started at ankle deep leading down to 3 or 4 feet whereas my local ones then at Everton Park were 3ft to 6ft. It was a saturday morning ritual in the early 1990s and then a quick nip to Sayers on Park Road for my sausage rolls and cakes - Mmmm.





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LRO (1960)

Steble street baths, now integrated into Park Road sports centre.


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