Old Photographs of Woodbridge & Melton
Between Lime Kiln Quay and the new ship yard there was a dock which appeared on the 1881 OS map but not on the 1844 Tithe map. It is also shown on the 1904 OS map. On the 1927 map it is called a Swimming Bath. Robert Simper says that the Mr & Mrs Robinson had the pool dug between their bungalow and the river in about 1910 but he does not mention the earlier dock on this site. Given the evidence for the earlier dock it is more likely that the Robinson had mud dug out of it to make it more suitable for a swimming pool. Simper also says that the pool closed in 1940 after it was claimed that some solders picked up an illness there.
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