The 1912 Amateur Swimming Association directory for swimmers in England listing: Indoor swimming baths, lidos, swimming lakes, swimming rivers, and seaside swimming facilities...
HAMPSHIRE
ISLE-OF-WIGHT
ALDERSHOT.
Bath. Soldiers only.
ALVERSTOCKE.
Sea, Stokes Bay. Historic wild swimming venue.
ANDOVER.
PUBLIC Bath, Adelaide Road.
BASINGSTOKE.
Bath. Open-air. Lido.
BOURNEMOUTH.
Sea and Bath, Pier approach. Used by ladies. Historic wild swimming venue.
CHRISTCHURCH.
Sea and River. Facilities plentiful. Historic wild swimming venue.
COWES.
Sea. Historic wild swimming venue.
LYMINGTON.
Public Bath.
PORTSMOUTH.
Public Bath. Sea accommodation. Historic wild swimming venue.
Romsey
Before 1937, when Romsey was first provided with a swimming pool, the only way to swim in Romsey was in one of the rivers.
There was an official bathing place in the Fishlake, but this was for boys and men only.
In 1928 Councillor Rowledge raised concerns that some bathers ‘came out of bounds without proper dress’ and said ‘it was disagreeable to people taking walks in that district’. Councillor A.H. Mitchell replied that spot had been a bathing place for 50 years and added that they could not stop boys going beyond the boundary because there was a public footpath there. He pointed out that at the seaside bathers had all manner of strangers crowded round them, ‘ladies and everyone else’. He added that ‘in his younger days if a lad had a bathing costume on, they took it off him and threw it in the water’.
Stories have also been told of swimmers dancing about naked to enrage the Timsbury policeman and when he crossed the field to chastise them, they would dive into the water and swim away. More...
RYDE.
Sea, Beach and pier. Historic wild swimming venue.
SANDOWN.
Sea. Historic wild swimming venue.
SOUTHAMPTON.
Public Baths. Lido.
There had been an open air public baths on the site since 1854 owned by Southampton Public Baths and Wash House Company. In 1890 it was bought by the Corporation and rebuilt, which included indoor ladies' and gents' pools at the front of the premises. More...
SOUTHSEA.
Sea. PORTSMOUTH Club stages. Separate stages for ladies and gents. Mixed bathing. Historic wild swimming venue.
WINCHESTER.
River, Garnier Road. Charge for private dressing shed. Historic wild swimming venue.
YARMOUTH.
