We went for a wonderful cool off at Charlton lido last night.
It feels a shame that sort of project isn’t really built any more. I wonder if some tech billionaire would like to gain some social credit by creating one - perhaps in Peckham Rye Park?!
Seriously, I wonder what it would take to progress a project like that? Peckham Rye park, or the recreation ground behind Honor Oak Park allotments / graveyard would be perfect venues.
Given they were charging £11 a ticket yesterday, with the climate situation the way it is, it would pay for itself pretty quickly, no?
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Yes. If Andrew Carnegie were alive and making decisions this week about how to improve civic life, would it be libraries or cooling off centres? Maybe donating air-con to libraries meets both aims or self-improvement through education and being cool enough to read a book.
But swimming? Carnegie as a Presbyterian might have disapproved of displaying oneself half-naked in public, so not sure if he would have built wimmning pools. But where are the tech bros? They should be bringing the Californian lifestyle to SE London!
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There used to be a lido on Peckham Rye; filled in long ago. It was in the triangle on the north side of Nunhead Lane.
A campaign was started to bring it back 10 years ago, but seems to have petered out.
Defunct Peckham Lido campaign
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Fascinating! The tech bros need to step up.
I’d completely forgotten about this but remember the crowdfunder now you’ve posted about it! I wonder what happened to the £63000 that was raised. I’m sure we could get the funds together for another go. It can’t be that much to restore something that’s already there.
1% off the sweet, sweet lido dream 
I used to go there as a kid when I was living in Peckham up to the age of 11 and then through the 70s after I’d moved to Honor Oak.
In the 80s, when I had my skate shop in Streatham, opening only 4-5:30pm, I spent lots of the summer round the corner in the massive and always refreshingly cool Tooting Bec Lido.
There used to be an outdoor pool at Forest hill School, named by some as Forest Hill Lido.
It was reportedly built by parents staff & pupils themselves in the post war years.
I recall it still being there on what is now an asphalt games area in the 80’s, though it had been closed for many years due to vandalism.
