Once named ‘Blackpool of the West’, this was a popular holiday resort in the 1920s and 30s. The popular open-air swimming pool was called ‘The Blue Lagoon’. Photographs from the time reveal that this was an important and fashionable retreat for families from Bristol and further afield. The swimming pool was demolished to make way for the flood- barrier and by the 1960s many of the cafés and amusements had closed.