Appledore's bathing or boating pool

has not had a happy history, and now Northam Urban Council have decided to ask the Army authorities to demolish it next year.

The Council are suggesting that this would provide an exercise for the Territorials.

Back in August 1949 the pool was described as a 'potential source of illness; and because of the expense of demolishing it the tidal valve was removed and water flowed in and out according to the tide. The pool periodically suffered not only from an accumulation of mud, silt, stones and shingle, but a wide variety of household refuse.

Gazette article dated 16 December 1960