Bloemfontein Lido

Bloemfontein Lido (also known as the Open-Air Swimming Bath on Bloemfontein Road, Hammersmith Open Air Swimming Pool) was a lido in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, located next to Wormholt Park.

[1] Work on the site began in February 2021 The Open-Air Swimming Bath on Bloemfontein Road, W12, was formally opened on Saturday 4 August 1923 by Alderman Marshall Hays, Mayor of Hammersmith.

[2] Bloemfontein Lido's main entrance was centrally placed with dressing boxes placed to either side – females to the left and males to the right.

The site was renamed to the Janet Adegoke Leisure Centre in 1990, after the first black Mayor of London Hammersmith.

[1] In 2016, Hammersmith & Fulham Council funded a landscape refurbishment of Wormholt Park, which, amongst other works, included the removal of the remains of the Centre.