Elswick, Elswick Park, swimming pool

HER Number:
9825

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Elswick, Elswick Park, swimming pool

Place:
Elswick

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Recreational

Site Type: Broad:
Sports Site

Site Type: Specific:
Swimming Pool

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
1984 by Napper Collerton Partnership. "A lively community building in dark wood, red brick and copper and with tubular steel latticework to support the roof". The architects also designed Felling Pool. Described as a leisure centre without a roof. By the 1970s Elswick Park was in a poor state, as were Elswick Baths on Scotswood Road and Westgate Baths in Arthur's Hill (both built in 1886). Scotswood Baths on Armstrong Road, dating from 1933 was also reaching the end of its useful life. There was thus a £1.8 million scheme to revive the park which a new leisure pool. The building has a free form pool with four lanes for serious swimmers.

Easting:
2310

Northing:
6368

Grid Reference:
NZ23106368

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
N. Pevsner and I. Richmond (second edition revised by J. Grundy, G. McCombie, P. Ryder, H. Welfare), 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland, page 516; Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - charting the heritage of people at play, p 185