19-592: Grange Lido is an open-air 50 m sea-water swimming pool, or lido , in Grange-over-Sands , Cumbria , England. It opened in 1932 and closed in 1993, but campaigners are working to see it re-opened as a swimming pool. The lido is in Art Deco style, and is grade II listed . The lido opened in 1932. The buildings were designed by Grange-over-Sands Urban District Council 's surveyor, named Bernard Smith or Thomas Huddlestone. The lido sits on Grange promenade on
38-418: A lido ( / ˈ l iː d oʊ / LEE -doh , / ˈ l aɪ d oʊ / LY -doh ) is a public outdoor swimming pool and surrounding facilities, or part of a beach where people can swim, lie in the sun , or participate in water sports. On a cruise ship or ocean liner , the lido deck features outdoor pools and related facilities. The term probably made its way into English via "Lansbury's Lido",
57-527: A marsh reversed the natural evolution of the Lagoon. Pumping of aquifers since the nineteenth century has increased subsidence . Many of the Lagoon's islands had originally been marshy, but a gradual drainage programme rendered them habitable. Many of the smaller islands are entirely artificial, while some areas around the seaport of the Mestre are also reclaimed islands. The remaining islands—-including those of
76-614: A nickname used in the British press for London's Serpentine bathing place. The bathing place was revamped in 1930 as a project of the Labour First Commissioner for Works, George Lansbury , a plaque to whom appears on the Serpentine pavilion to this day. The re-opening garnered significant press attention as a result of Lansbury's introduction of "mixed" bathing. Lido , an Italian word for "beach", forms part of
95-470: A special gala. The lido closed in 1993, after a report suggested that necessary repairs would be too expensive to be justified. In 2011 the Save Grange Lido campaign was established, aiming to "transform it into a vibrant community owned leisure facility with a restored 50m pool at its heart." The group has produced a detailed business plan setting out how it believes this could be achieved. It
114-431: A stunning setting on the edge of Morecambe Bay". English Heritage state the reasons for the lido's grade II listing in 2011 as: Pevsner 's The Buildings of England (revised ed. 2010), within its description of Grange promenade, simply says "Lido, 1933, closed 1992, and now very forlorn". The lido suffered damage from floods in 1977, when the outer wall was breached, but celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1982 with
133-599: A surface area of around 160 square kilometres (62 square miles), is the northernmost lagoon in the Adriatic Sea and is sometimes called the "twin sister of the Venice lagoon". The Lagoon of Venice is the most important survivor of a system of estuarine lagoons that in Roman times extended from Ravenna north to Trieste . In the fifth and sixth centuries, the Lagoon gave security to Romanised people fleeing invaders (mostly
152-630: Is a community benefit society . In 2015 South Lakeland District Council began to consider future uses for the site which would not include a swimming facility: the pool area was to become a "landscaped open space". In February 2019 the council allocated £2million for "light touch refurbishment" of the lido, to include making it structurally sound, bringing it back into public use, and providing refurbished units for community groups or entrepreneurs. 54°11′15″N 2°54′44″W / 54.187489°N 2.912146°W / 54.187489; -2.912146 Lido (swimming pool) In British English ,
171-570: Is the largest wetland in the Mediterranean Basin . It is connected to the Adriatic Sea by three inlets : Lido , Malamocco and Chioggia . Situated at one end of a largely enclosed sea, the lagoon is subject to large variations in its water level. The most extreme are the spring tides known as the acqua alta (Italian for "high water"), which regularly flood much of Venice. The nearby Marano-Grado Lagoon , with
190-661: The Huns and the Lombards ). Later, it provided naturally protected conditions for the growth of the Venetian Republic and its maritime empire . It still provides a base for a seaport , the Venetian Arsenal , and for fishing , as well as a limited amount of hunting and the newer industry of fish farming . The Lagoon was formed about six to seven thousand years ago, when the marine transgression following
209-518: The Ice Age flooded the upper Adriatic coastal plain. Deposition of river sediments compensated for the sinking coastal plain, and coastwise drift from the mouth of the Po tended to form sandbars that closed tidal inlets. The present aspect of the Lagoon is the result of human intervention. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Venetian hydraulic projects designed to prevent the lagoon from turning into
SECTION 10
#1732787263603228-682: The English name for an enclosed, shallow embayment of salt water: a lagoon . The Venetian Lagoon stretches from the River Sile in the north to the Brenta in the south, with a surface area of around 550 square kilometres (212 square miles). It is around 8% land, including Venice itself and many smaller islands. About 11% is permanently covered by open water, or canals , as the network of dredged channels are called, while around 80% consists of mud flats , tidal shallows and salt marshes . The Lagoon
247-503: The Venice Lagoon was harmed by a reduction in nutrient inputs and by macroalgal biomasses caused by climate change , and by changes in the concentration and distribution of nitrogen , organic phosphorus and organic carbon in the upper sediments. At the same time, however, the seagrasses started a natural process of recolonization, helping to partially restore the pristine conditions of the marine ecosystem. The Venice Lagoon
266-549: The coastal strip ( Lido , Pellestrina and Treporti )—-are essentially dunes . Venice Lagoon has been inhabited from the most ancient times, but it was only during and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire that people coming from the Venetian mainland settled in numbers large enough to found the city of Venice . Today, the main cities inside the lagoon are Venice (at the centre of it) and Chioggia (at
285-660: The lagoon, possibly for feeding. The level of pollution in the lagoon has long been a concern The large phytoplankton and macroalgae blooms in the late 1980s proved particularly devastating. Researchers have identified the lagoon as one of the primary areas where non-indigenous species are introduced into the Mediterranean Sea . Cruise ships crossing the Venetian Lagoon have contributed to air pollution, surface-water pollution, decreased water quality, erosion, and loss of landscape. From 1987 to 2003,
304-463: The latter's variable weather. Notes Sources Venetian Lagoon The Venetian Lagoon ( Italian : Laguna di Venezia ; Venetian : Łaguna de Venesia ) is an enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea , in northern Italy , in which the city of Venice is situated. Its name in the Italian and Venetian languages , Laguna Veneta (cognate of Latin lacus ' lake ' ), has provided
323-585: The place names of several Italian seaside towns known for their beaches, such as Lido di Venezia , the barrier beach enclosing the Venetian Lagoon . Like the Lido di Venezia, the Serpentine "Lido" includes an extended area of shoreline. The nickname "Lansbury's Lido" was probably also ironic, given the contrast between the glamour of Venice and the relative squalor of interwar London — not to mention
342-514: The shore of Morecambe Bay , although as of 2019 the changing course of the River Kent means that the sea is at some distance from the promenade, separated by salt marsh . The 165 ft × 112 ft (50 m × 34 m) pool was filled with filtered sea-water at high tide, and was unheated. The buildings are in Art Deco style. Historic Pools of Britain describes the lido as "A very fine intact Art Deco mushroom shaped lido in
361-471: The southern inlet); Lido di Venezia and Pellestrina are inhabited as well, but they are considered part of Venice. However, most of the inhabitants of Venice, as well as its economic core (its airport and harbor), are on the western border of the lagoon, around the former towns of Mestre and Marghera . There are also two towns at the northern end of the lagoon: Jesolo (a famous sea resort) and Cavallino-Treporti . Bottlenose dolphins occasionally enter
#602397