ON the Nostalgia page this week I have described how the swimming pool at Burnham Beeches came to be constructed and was opened in July 1934.
High Wycombe did have a swimming pool at that time, which was located at the West End Recreation Ground off the West Wycombe Road, a hundred yards or so east of Mill End Road.
It was fed by water from the river Wye but had to close in 1947 because of the danger of pollution. It was another 10 years before a Swimming pools, Wycombe v Burnham Beeches new pool was opened on the Rye.
On this page I am showing pictures of both pools and will allow you to draw your own conclusions regarding the relative qualities of the two.
Top: General view of the swimming and paddling pools at Burnham Beeches, 1940s.
Mid left: The slide in the left foreground and the main building on the opposite side of the main pool at Burnham Beeches, 1940s.
Mid right: The swimming pool, with the wooden changing hut, West End Recreation Ground, High Wycombe, 1932.
Left: Here we see about 50 men, women, and children, who are members of High Wycombe Swimming Club, posing on and around the diving structure at the swimming pool in West End Recreation Ground, High Wycombe, 1940s.
Above: The three tiered diving platform at Burnham Beeches swimming pool, 1940s
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