Growing popularity of outdoor swimming leads to string of facilities opening across the country For the past 25 years, Hull's lido has been out of bounds to everyone except the ducks and the local canoe club. Situated in the ward of Newington and Gipsyville, one of the most deprived neighbourhoods in Britain, Albert Avenue pool is surrounded by terraced houses whose occupants had long given up hope of ever taking to its waters without a kayak. Now, as part of its plans to "build a better society...
Growing popularity of outdoor swimming leads to string of facilities opening across the country For the past 25 years, Hull's lido has been out of bounds to everyone except the ducks and the local canoe club. Situated in the ward of Newington and Gipsyville, one of the most deprived neighbourhoods in Britain, Albert Avenue pool is surrounded by terraced houses whose occupants had long given up hope of ever taking to its waters without a kayak. Now, as part of its plans to "build a better society...
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