THIS week the nostalgia section features a busy 1960s scene at the Knap pool, Barry, taken from the top of its cloakrooms.
The building is now used by the Rhondda (Cold Knap) Lifeguard Club as its headquarters.
The lido opened in May 1927.
Barry swimming club used it in the 1930s and the diving boards were replaced in the 50s for the British Games.
The Games saw the pool shortened to 50 yards.
It cost £450 for the diving pit to be deepened to a depth of 11 foot, six inches, bringing them up to the required standard.
The chalets were built in 1934 with the design intended to make them look like a ship’s bridge.
A café was built a few years later.
The popular dolphin feature was made by Reg Lalande.
The pool attracted thousands of visitors with tourist brochures calling it “Barry’s Jewel in the Crown”.
Dow Corning expressed interest in taking over the facility, but the council rejected the idea and it closed in 1996.
A campaign, in 2014, to bring the facility back was unsuccessful.
The Barry & District News would like to thank Tom Clemett for providing the photograph.
If you have an old photograph you’d like included in From the Archives email sha@barryanddistrictnews.co.uk
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