Fenham, Fenham Hall Drive, Fenham Public Baths

HER Number:
17074

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Fenham, Fenham Hall Drive, Fenham Public Baths

Place:
Fenham

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Baths

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

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:
2175

Northing:
6556

Grid Reference:
NZ21756556

Lats/Lons:

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