Base of high dive

Category

Library Item

Item no

7864

Title

Base of high dive, steps from duct to bather's promenade, 10th July 1935

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1935

Size

20.7 x 15.9 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Copyright

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Annotation indicates that concrete pillar in the left of the photograph is the 'main column supporting high diving stage'

Portobello's outdoor swimming pool was opened in 1936. It was equipped with diving boards and a wave machine, and was open between May and September. The pool's proximity to a power station gave it access to heated water, but also meant that it had to be covered for the duration of World War II to prevent it being used as a marker by German bombers. The actor Sean Connery served as a Portobello lifeguard in the post war period. The pool was closed in 1979, not long after the power station, and the area is now used for five-a-side football.

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