The original Droitwich Spa Sea Water Lido was opened in 1935, the unique selling feature being the ‘sea water bathing’. The pool water had nearly the same brine content as the “Med” and at a comfortable 21°C (70°F) temperature.
The Lido was closed suddenly in 2000, but following a six year campaign by SALT (Save a Lido Today), re-opened in June 2007 having undergone a sympathetic restoration of the pool and its environs.
B+W was responsible for the design, supply, installation and commissioning of the filtration and water treatment plant, and the re-lining of the existing pool structure, using the Myrtha Renovaction system, to form a 40m x 18m level deck channel pool. Local Brine is still being added to the pool water. In 1935 Professor William Gemmil, Hon. Surgeon of Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, enthusiastically commented, “I have it on the highest authority that the brine of Droitwich is second to none in Europe for its medicinal properties.”