A nice young lady in Morrisons, among the fruit and veg, asked when the paddling pool was built. The original paddling pool that is, captioned above as New Model Yacht and Paddling Lake.
I presume the pool was established in early 1920s during a wave of improvements to the central part of the promenade, at same time as the pier's wooden Amphitheatre was rebuilt in brick and the Coliseum was created (opened 1921).
Certainly the pool existed by 1923; a previous post in this blog includes a picture taken there in that year. The following card is postmarked 1930:
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The image below shows what was in the location of the pool previously. Sand!
Years ago somebody told me the Pavilion was not built on the promenade, it was built over the beach on a specially-constructed platform adjoining the promenade. Hmmmm yes, looks likely.
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