For decades, a community headed to their local open-air baths to soak up the sun and learn how to swim.
Originally built in 1912 for a 2,500 capacity, Hoylake Baths first opened on the promenade back in June 1913. Refurbished in the late 1920s at a cost of £25,000, the site later reopened in the 1930s following a reconstruction which saw a new art deco style. and bigger capacity.
Very popular with locals and others from elsewhere in Merseyside, on August 3, 1937, the Liverpool ECHO recorded how there's been a "rush" to the site, which was "unusually high" for that time of year. The article reads: "Six thousand people, excluding contractors, used the Hoylake open-air bath yesterday.
