Bath Time – Maindee Pool
Built not long before the outbreak of the World War II, Maindee swimming pool is a bit of a grand old dame. Starting life in …
What’s up for auction next?
Newspaper article taken from South Wales Argus on 14th April 2008 (Page12)
Looking back at Maindee baths – Newport’s stylish pool
IT WAS the place where generations of Newport children learned to swim and just once where dolphins frolicked. MARTIN WADE looks through the Argus archive …
LETTERS: Maindee baths
YOUR feature on Maindee baths (4 August ) brought back many memories of a much used and loved pool. To see it’s present state is …
Newport city has lost many sporting venues and fields
I WAS interested to read in your paper recently about the city fathers praising themselves for the sporting facilities now available in the town. True, …
Swimming? It ain’t what it used to be…
CRAZED bathers jumping into the sea and dodging the ice floes on Boxing Day are always superannuated or thereabouts. It may be something to do …
Maindee Baths could rise from the ashes (June 2010)
MAINDEE Baths is set to get a new lease of life as its owners plan to turn it into a hub for the community. The …
COMMENT…Baths should be protected (July 2007)
In this day and age it is a sad inevitability that any building left unoccupied will eventually be targeted by the criminal fraternity. Yesterday Maindee …
Maindee pools go up for auction (21st November 2009)
THIS art-deco building could prove the answer to those leisure centre blues. Swimming lane rage, changing room embarrassment and gym class competitiveness could all be …
Maindee pool set to be Auctioned (2009)
“A SUBSTANTIAL grade-ll listed building with potential for multiple re-development opportunities.” This is the description given for the former Maindee swimming baths in the catalogue …