The Lido: The most uplifting, feel-good summer read of the year

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The landscape of today’s Hyde Park remains much as it has been since Queen Caroline’s innovative relandscaping. Hyde Park in the 1800s But when a local developer attempts to buy the lido for a posh new apartment complex, Rosemary’s fond memories and sense of community are under threat. The Joy of Life fountain depicts two bronze figures holding hands while appearing to dance above the water, with four bronze children emerging from the pool. The closest mainline station is London Paddington - located approximately 500m north of West Carriage Drive. The station is served by services from GWR, Heathrow Express and TfL's Elizabeth Line.

The famous trumpeter, Harry Mortimer, described Hyde Park's bandstand as "uncomfortable, unsanitary, but much loved". He did a week's engagement on the bandstand during World War II in 1944 with the Fodens Motor Works Band. He wrote in his autobiography: With the changing season and shorter days, treat yourself to either an early morning or evening massage and swim. Choose from the following times to book your treatments (8.30am, 5.45pm, 7.15pm and 8.30pm) and you will also be free to come along 90 minutes beforehand to use the pool, sauna, steam room and hot tub.Now that I have finished The Lido, I have found that nothing happened that I hadn’t anticipated early in my reading. During the second half of the book, the impact of interpersonal emotions did feel more real and earned, as the characters slowly revealed themselves to each other. An early problem for me was that Kate, a very prominent character, dominated much of the early chapters but was too closed off, even from herself, to make those chapters feel as real as they needed to be. Feel free to bring your own food and drink to enjoy in the park but barbecues and any sort of fire lighting is absolutely forbidden. Enjoy the warmer weather with your little ones at a number of splash pads around London and the home counties. From fountains and sprinklers to water features, let your kids cool down when it heats up at a GLL-run splash pad. This book is not about the plot, it is about the characters and how they grow, and the lido itself is a main character and is portrayed as such.

Y hasta aquí puedo contar, si queréis saber todo de esta historia es mejor que la leáis, a que os la cuenten. The Lido” is a sweet tale of two women joining forces and rallying the community to save a local swimming pool. This is an adorable, uplifting story of an unlikely friendship of a young girl who is struggling to fit in a suburb of London called Brixton. She works at a local paper and she has the assignment to write about the local swimming pool. She meets an elderly woman who has enjoyed the pool since the 1920’s. When a development company buys the land and pool to build an upscale apartment building, the swimmers are aghast.The fish lie on beds of ice, turning it from white to pink throughout the day and reminding you that you should never eat pink snow either" She spends hours wandering through the local cemetery, inventing biographical stories for the names inscribed on headstones. There she meets and befriends an elderly woman who sings to the crows, whom she names Sally Red Shoes. As a tentative – and, as in The Lido, unexpected – friendship develops, Masha gradually surfaces from the depths of her grief, and swimming becomes restorative rather than punishing. This is the original Rotten Row, which is a corruption of the French 'Route de Roi' or King's Road. Hyde Park and a Queen’s touch

This book was a light read that took me forever to get through, it just wasn’t all that interesting to me. One of the best-known features of the park is the Diana Memorial Fountain, opened in 2004 as a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales. It’s a popular place for children to play and paddle. I thought the characters were very well developed, particularly Rosemary, as we learn her life story from the time that she met George until his passing. Of course the lido played a huge part in their life, almost to the point of being a bit unbelievable. All of the photos that she goes through at one point have either one of them in swimwear at, in or around the lido. The Norwegian Navy and Merchant Fleet presented this large granite boulder in 1978 as thanks for British support during World War 2. The Pan statue, also known as Rush of Green, is a bronze statue depicting a family and their dog rushing eagerly towards the park, urged on by Pan who is playing pipes.

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Until 1783, the infamous Tyburn Gallows sat just outside Hyde Park. Tradition dictated that everyone condemned to die there could make a final speech – and since you were about to die, you could say pretty much what you pleased. After the gallows were closed, the tradition for public speaking remained and the part of Hyde Park known as Speaker’s Corner became a popular place for Londoners to have their say. The 1800s saw Hyde Park cement its reputation as a venue for national celebrations. In 1814, the Prince Regent organised fireworks to mark the end of the Napoleonic Wars and then, in 1851, the park hosted The Great Exhibition. This major international event celebrated industry, technology and culture from across the globe. Two landmark Hyde Park fountains are here as well – the Boy and Dolphin Fountain and Diana the Huntress Fountain. Discover the delights of The Dell Rosemary is 86 years old, and daily visits her local lido for a swim; she has recently tried to stir up interest in saving the lido from being bought up and removed by high-end property developers. Despite spending her entire life in this South West London community centred around Brixton, and having numerous acquaintances Rosemary hasn't really opened up to anyone since the death of her husband, the love of her life. Local journalist Kate is 26 years old, and originally growing up in Bristol has really struggled to bond with Brixton and its people mostly due to her anxiety and the resulting loneliness. A moving and tale-of-our-times story about the power of community.