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Crowds enjoy the warmth of a summer’s heat wave within the confines of Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. These Londoners have escape the street and unwind during a warm spell of weather and before another day of city heat. They swim and bathe in the chilly waters of this unheated pool. The Lido is a magnet, an oasis, for city dwellers to escape, if only for an hour from the pressures of fast urban life. Many enjoy the benefits of outdoor bathing and the friendship of meeting old friends. In the centre, a mother helps her young daughter up from the cool morning water before another hot day in August. Brockwell Lido is a large, open-air swimming pool in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London. It opened in July 1937, closed in 1990 and after a local campaign was re-opened in 1994.

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Crowds enjoy the warmth of a summer’s heat wave within the confines of Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. These Londoners have escape the street and unwind during a warm spell of weather and before another day of city heat. They swim and bathe in the chilly waters of this unheated pool. The Lido is a magnet, an oasis, for city dwellers to escape, if only for an hour from the pressures of fast urban life. Many enjoy the benefits of outdoor bathing and the friendship of meeting old friends. In the centre, a mother helps her young daughter up from the cool morning water before another hot day in August. Brockwell Lido is a large, open-air swimming pool in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London. It opened in July 1937, closed in 1990 and after a local campaign was re-opened in 1994.