Liquid Assets: The Lidos and Open Air Swimming Pools of Britain


In Liquid Assets journalist Janet Smith, author of a history of Tooting Bec Lido and herself a keen swimmer, traces the development of Britain’s surprisingly rich stock of lidos, starting with their muddy beginnings in London’s parks, through their fashionable heyday in the 1930s, to their battle for survival today. Lavishly illustrated with both archive and contemporary photographs, Liquid Assets highlights some of the nation’s outstanding architectural examples. B… More >>

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The 2007 Report on Swimming Pool Water-Treating Chemical Preparations: World Market Segmentation by City


This report was created for global strategic planners who cannot be content with traditional methods of segmenting world markets. With the advent of a “borderless world”, cities become a more important criteria in prioritizing markets, as opposed to regions, continents, or countries. This report covers the top 2000 cities in over 200 countries. It does so by reporting the estimated market size (in terms of latent demand) for each major city of the world. It then… More >>

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Treat your Family to the Luxury of Swimming Pools

Fridays have this uncanny ability to make me feel sleepy and lethargic. But the reason why I am feeling very sleepy (it’s a Friday) and not to mention lethargic is because I did not sleep properly last night. This is slowly becoming a routine, not getting sleep properly at night. My friend is a doctor, so I had a talk with him about this, and he says that I am not the only one facing this insomnia problem and this is turning out to be rampant. Swimming pools are one means that I can try out for inducing relaxing sleep at night, he said. Now I was stumped, swimming pool and sleep what connection is there? Apparently there was a medical study conducted by doctors and it was found that sitting in hot tubs and swimming pools at the end of tiring day can induce sound sleep.

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