Nostalgia: A look back at Cork s famous Lee Baths
Swimming at the Lee Baths July 1935.
Amy Nolan
With mounting calls for a lido to be built in Cork, this week we have taken a look back at the last open air swimming pool to operate in Cork city, the Lee Baths.
The summer of 1934 saw the opening of Cork’s new municipal and open air unheated swimming pool on the site now occupied by The Kingsley Hotel on the Carrigrohane Road.
In May 1934 the Cork Examiner gave a preview of what the city could expect from the new facility.
Work in progress at Lee Swimming Baths, Carrigrohane Road, 1933.