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Pioneer Health Centre, St Mary's Road, Peckham, London: the swimming pool
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NOTES: In the 1990s the health centre was converted into housing. The frontage remains the same and the swimming pool has been retained for the use of the residents.
University of London Students' Union building (ULU), Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London: the swimming pool roof seen from the deep end
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NOTES: Designed in 1939 but only completed in 1955, this building comprised a swimming pool, gymnasium, badminton court and assembly hall.
Bletchley Leisure Centre, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: the enclosed bridge connecting the multi-storey car park to the leisure centre
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NOTES: Milton Keynes, which incorporated the existing towns of Bletchley, Wolverton and Stony Stratford along with another fifteen villages and farmland in between, was designated a new town in 1967 and planning control was thus taken from elected local authorities and delegated to the Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC).
Bletchley Leisure Centre, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: the swimming pool with pyramidal roof seen from the enclosed bridge
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NOTES: Milton Keynes, which incorporated the existing towns of Bletchley, Wolverton and Stony Stratford along with another fifteen villages and farmland in between, was designated a new town in 1967 and planning control was thus taken from elected local authorities and delegated to the Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC).
Bletchley Leisure Centre, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: the enclosed bridge and the main approach to the leisure centre
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NOTES: Milton Keynes, which incorporated the existing towns of Bletchley, Wolverton and Stony Stratford along with another fifteen villages and farmland in between, was designated a new town in 1967 and planning control was thus taken from elected local authorities and delegated to the Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC).
Leeds International Pool, Westgate, Leeds: view from the diving platform
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 7: Local Government' in Architectural Review, vol. 148, 1970 July.
Swiss Cottage Swimming Baths and Central Library, Hampstead, London: close-up of the concrete freize sculpture and brise soleil on the swimming pool facade
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NOTES: The Swiss Cottage Swimming Baths and Central Library opened in 1964 but the council chamber and administration buildings included in the original masterplan for Hampstead Civic Centre were abandoned in 1966 with the reorganization of local government in London.