Jesus Green
Riverside park with plane-tree avenues and a long, narrow, unheated nineteen-twenties open-air lido.
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This guide to Jesus Green Lido in Cambridge looks at the pool as a made thing: a long, narrow ribbon of water laid out beside the River Cam in nineteen twenty-three. It reaches back to the centuries when the town swam in the river itself, and to a sixteenth-century Vice-Chancellor who threatened students with a whipping for it. Stand at the pool's edge, facing down its length, to hear it best.
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