It was taken in about 1955 at the lido by his father Jim. Mr Brown, who is from Newport but now lives in Yorkshire, said: “The picture shows me, my brother David with our mother and grandmother at Bulmore Lido.” According to
The History of the Borough of Newport by Haydn Davis the lido was opened in July 1934 after a private company acquired land on part of Bulmore Farm Caerleon to build an open air swimming pool, cafe and restaurant. Mr Davis said in his 1998 book that after Bulmore Lido, as it became well known, opened the public flocked there in hundreds on clement days, travelling by specially timed omnibuses, on foot and by bicycle (motor cars were then very thin on the ground as family transport).