If Maindee Pools Opened Today, Who Would Come?
I can't give an honest visitor figure for a pool that closed in 2005, but I can look at what would decide it, using what other struggling Newport venues show.
I can't give an honest visitor figure for a pool that closed in 2005, but I can look at what would decide it, using what other struggling Newport venues show.
Maindee Pools, once a cherished community hub, now stands abandoned, evoking nostalgia for countless Newport kids who grew up with it.
Maindee Pools opened in 1938 and closed in 2005. In those years a great many people in Newport
I imagine how Maindee Pools in Newport might look now if money had been kept for the building and it had never closed. This is informed speculation, not a record.
Some pictures of Maindee Pools fun day back on the 8th of August 2010.
Some interior photos I took of Maindee Pools back in July 2010 with permission of owners unfortunately I couldn't get any of the main pool due to poor lighting…