Hartlepool History Then & Now - Seaton Swimming Baths

Seaton Swimming Baths

Details about Seaton Swimming Baths

The pool opened in 1914, the money being donated by Sir William Cresswell Gray, son of the first Sir William Gray who built the shipbuilding empire. In 1920 West Hartlepool Amateur Swimming Club was formed. The pool was used by the public and for school swimming lessons for years and many will remember the hot pies sold by the Woodpecker Cafe over the road by the bus stop into town The baths closed in 1976 as the Mill House Baths had opened in 1972.

A small restaurant complex is now on the site.

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At the Baths

Donated by Maureen Ledington
Dated 1950

Baths re-open 1951

Created by NDM
Donated by Hartlepool Museum Service
Dated 1951

New roof for pool

Created by NDM
Donated by Hartlepool Museum Service
Dated 1968

Samuel Bolton inside Seaton Baths

Donated by Jacky Armstrong

St Cuthbert's Children at Seaton Baths

Created by NDM
Donated by Hartlepool Museum Service

Swimming Baths facelift

Created by NDM
Donated by Hartlepool Museum Service
Dated 1952

Swimming baths Seaton Carew

Donated by Douglas Ferriday
Part of the Hartlepool Library Service collection

Youngsters at Seaton Carew

Created by unknown
Donated by Mr. Billy Henderson