Danson Park Swimming Pool

Danson Park Swimming Pool (or Bexley Swimming Pool, to use its official name) was opened in 1936 and was a huge outdoor pool situated within Danson Park in Welling/Bexleyheath, Kent.
The pool itself was an extremely popular attraction during the summer months and also featured a very high diving board, two smaller pools, and a fun water fountain. It was unheated, and locals would often joke about how cold the water would sometimes get!
It was always closed during the winter months and sadly succumbed to vandalism during its latter years, with the council eventually deciding the maintenance of the was pool was becoming too expensive. After 43 years of service it was sadly closed in 1979, and eventually demolished in 1985.
When visiting Danson Park it's often hard to believe that it had its own swimming pool for over four decades, but if you look closely you can still see remnants of the old entrance as well as some of the old manhole covers.
This really was a magnificent swimming pool and I hope this video provides lots of happy memories for people.
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[@malc802]

Spent a lot of my youth there,happy memories

[@rickclark9724]

Great to see these photos. What a fantastic place I have great memories of enjoying the pool in the 60’s and with some pocket money for some crisps what more could you want

[@peterlaurie6853]

Learnt to swim there in the early 60s

[@robertwatson5104]

i spent may a happy summer there, lived just across the road in Shorne Close,
very sad to see its gone

[@Funtimes506]

I remember skateboarding in the pool after it had closed down, around 1978. swiiming as a boy in 1973. thankyou for posting

[@joannesmith9890]

We used to go all the time and I have a pic of me and my brother when we were about 2 & 7 years .it got packed and you had to remember where your towel was - brilliant days

[@stephen8577]

I use to live in Welling, went there as a nipper and Crook Log baths. Happy days long gone.

[@camperp195]

Gone forever,same as martens grove,both great pools!

[@kohedunn]

Why oh why are historical places like this , so easily destroyed.. ? How much better it would have been , if children who were there all the time , could return one day and reminisce and enjoy it once again... Show their own children and grandchildren , where mum and day spent many haopy hours..... where do they go now ? does anything ever last , is nothing precious ? I see an empty patch of ground with trees..we all love trees .. Trees surrounded the pool, Now there is nothing to show anything was ever there... Just ghosts...and distant laughter....

[@peterlaurie6853]

Why they have to close it? Would love to go back for a swim

[@williams5985]

I spent many a day there on a hot summers day. Shame it had to go. I remember the bird aviary and mini golf. In my opinion it was a much nicer park then.

[@yvetteconnor9794]

Such a shame. I spent so much time there.

[@spgranorthiam123]

I went to the pool in fifties and sixties, I learnt to swim there, I have lots good memories of the pool, sad to see it's demise and passing into history, I expect just pure greed, was the reason it was shut, I now live near south east coast, our local pool has just shut down supposedly for the winter, indoor pool, the same here, history repeating it's self. I went there two or three times a week,

[@peterwilliams4842]

My school (Elsa road} used to have the school swimming gala there, in March, freezing, and I spent many happy days there. My bicycle was stolen out of the car park, not such a happy day. bar stewards.

[@davidbeavan9521]

I remember that pete

[@davidbeavan9521]

I used to swim in that pool 6 pence all day shallow end 3 foot 6 deep end 10 feet great days I could tell u more temp of water afternoon in 70tes