Tour Scotland 4K Winter travel video of the old tidal bathing pool in the fishing village of Cellardyke on ancestry visit to the coast of the East Neuk of Fife. I spent many happy days here as a child growing up in Cellardyke, The swimming pool was once known as The Cardinal's Steps after Cardinal Beaton of St Andrews who had a seaside residence here in the 16th century. It was developed into a formal bathing pool in the 1930s by local volunteers. The sea air would be rather bracing, the water not much warmer than freezing and the chance of swallowing a lungful of salty seawater extremely high. Long before heated and indoor swimming pools arrived, generations of hardy Scots learned to swim in Scotland’s coastal tidal pools. Interest these in days tidal pools is thought to have been sparked both by a resurgence in interest in wild swimming in Scotland, plus a wave of nostalgia for a simpler age when summer holidays were spent closer to home. Tidal pools cropped up all around the Scottish coast and waters, including in Dumfries and Galloway. The UK’s most northerly pool, in Scalloway in Shetland, was bulldozed in 1993 to make way for a car park.
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