WATCH: Blackpool's beloved and lost Derby Baths in days gone by

Name: Derby Baths
Uploaded: 2024-05-29T13:48:23.000Z
Duration: 56 s
Description: Derby Baths... it's still one of the most talked about parts of Blackpool's past

By Claire Lark

Nostalgia and Property Writer

Published 31st May 2024, 13:42 BST

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Watch our video of Derby Baths with pictures that remind us of a long ago era when the pool was where everyone went with their friends.

It’s where they tackled the highest of diving boards and where the first water slides were built. The pool was a winner. For a time anyway.

By the late 1980s the pool’s days were numbered. In a highly controversial move it was decided that Derby Baths should close. People were furious and protested to keep it open but in March 1990 the bulldozers moved in.

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