Tunstall Pool

See

Amy Edwards, '1000 year swim comes to Stoke', BBC Stoke and Staffordshire website, 21 August 2008. Includes interview with BBC Radio Stoke's Breakfast Show presenter Pete Morgan (4mins 42 seconds).

'Historian dives in to mark age of swimming baths', The Sentinel, (Stoke on Trent), 7 August 2008

Lucas Vale, '1,000 year swim', The Sentinel (Stoke on Trent), 13 August 2008. (video 1min 24 seconds)

From the list entry:

Public Library, formerly Victoria Institute, and public baths.
1889. Brick with stone and terracotta dressings and plain
tiled roofs. 3-storeyed, main elevation of 9 bays (4-1-4),
with projecting central entrance porch with Jacobean
detailing: round-arched doorway with frieze in flanking stone
pilasters, and coat of arms in shallow segmental pediment. Two
large mullioned and transomed windows above, and pedimented
gable with arms.
Outer bays of banded brick to ground floor, with stone
mullioned windows with stone dressings - continuous sills and
hood moulds. Terracotta frieze over windows reading "Free
Library Public Baths, Art and Science Institute". Consoles
carry pilasters articulating the first storey, and a
projecting cornice beneath round arched arcade of windows in
the attic storey.
4 bays to Greengates Street similarly detailed, and a massive
hanging wrought-iron sign reading "Thomas Nash Peake gave this
AD 1901" and on the obverse, "Tunstall Free Library. William
Dunrose made this, AD 1901" in gothic script.
Public Baths is a 2-storeyed brick building to Greengates
Street, linked to the library via its rear courtyard range. A
significant example of the provision of municipal facilities
in late C19.

See the list entry on Heritage Gateway.

See the pool website. (City of Stoke on Trent)