Fenham Hall Drive, Fenham Public Baths

HER Number:
17074

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Fenham Hall Drive, Fenham Public Baths

Place:
Fenham

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Recreational

Site Type: Broad:
Swimming Pool

Site Type: Specific:
Indoor Swimming Pool

General Period:
20TH CENTURY

Specific Period:
Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Designed by Hetherington & Wilson. Opened in 1938. Single storey brick entrance block in front of a top-lit pool shed containing a pool measuring 75 feet x 35 feet. The pool catered for mixed swimming sessions. Changing rooms were set apart from the pool. There were a limited number of slipper (individual) baths. Fenham Baths closed on 28 June 2003. Pool users formed the Fenham Swimming Project as a charitable company. The baths re-opened in July 2005. The Big Lottery Fund gave the project an £80,000 grant in 2007 for improvements. More improvements were made in 2009-10.

Easting:
421750

Northing:
565560

Grid Reference:
NZ421750565560

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 178-9