Tyne and Wear HER(17075): Cowgate, Harehills Avenue, Montagu Baths - Details
17075
Newcastle
Cowgate, Harehills Avenue, Montagu Baths
Cowgate
NZ26NW
Recreational
Sports Site
Swimming Pool
Modern
C20
Demolished Building
Newcastle's first post war swimming pool. Designed by Cackett, Burns Dick and Mackellar and City Architect George Kenyon. It opened in May 1964. The pool was 110 feet x 42 feet. It was overlooked by seating with glazed screen ends and side windows. Overhead lighting was recessed in a false ceiling. Pop Art inspired tiling surrounded the pool. At the deep end there was a cantilevered reinforced concrete 5m diving board. There was a public laundry in the basement. Demolished in 2009.
2180
6715
NZ21806715
Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 183