Synch or Swim with the Bathing Belles

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The open air 'solar heated' Jubilee Pool is the jewel in the crown of Penzance promenade.  Originally built to fulfill the town's need to clear some slums and help make Penzance a bona fide seaside resort, it recently opened its doors for the 2010 season. 

As the largest Lido in the country, it is marked out by the sweeping white lines of its design, and the serried ranks of changing cubicles along the terraces above the waterline. This year being the 75th anniversary of the first opening ceremony in 1935, it was celebrated with Art75, where local schoolchildren and artists turned over 90 cubicles into mini art galleries, each one with something new for the viewer to experience.

With painting, animation, sculptures or film and archive installations as well as live music to choose from, there was a lot to please the crowds.  The stand out part of the show was the Synchronised swimming display from St Austell Synchronised Swimming club, and, stunningly attired in glam period swimsuits and hats, the Penzance based Bathing Beauties.








 If you want to catch the show again, get down to the pool on Quay Fair day, the Sunday of the Golowan Festival weekend, when you could (groan) Synch or Swim.

More next year please.

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foreveryoung said…
Love these too! Great, fun stuff. X
June 15, 2010 at 10:08 AM
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