Thursday, 19 March 2026

King Alfred / 2026

Leisure centre with swimming pools designed by Tom Humble, Borough Surveyor of Hove, c.1938, in a brick modern style typical of lidos of that era. Plans have now been submitted for a new, smaller, rebuild which will release land for high-rise flats. The proposed new facility has been described as "bland, boxy and generic”. City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 
(CC BY-NC-ND - credit: Images George Rex)