Piscine Roger-Salengro, Art Deco outdoor swimming pool in Bruay-la-Buissière, France
Piscine Roger-Salengro is an open-air Art Deco complex in Bruay-la-Buissière, built by architect Paul Hanote in 1936. It has three reinforced-concrete pools, two diving platforms of 3 and 5 metres, 246 changing cabins and four locker rooms. The two wings carry solarium terraces, and a first-aid post with a water tank sits at their corner.
The facility opened on August 1, 1936, designed by architect Paul Hanote during the Popular Front period. It was created as a leisure destination for local miners, funded through social policies of the era.
The building features ocean liner design elements from the interwar period, embodying the dream of travel and prosperity that shaped public spaces of the time. This architectural language shows how people imagined leisure and enjoyment.
The complex is an open-air pool, so bathing depends on the season; it was built with 246 changing cabins and four locker rooms. Access is from the streets of the corons near mining town no. 9. Look for the two diving platforms, 3 and 5 metres high, and the rescue post with its water tank at the corner of the two wings.
The pool was built in 1936 as an open-air "swimming school"; one basin was reserved entirely for schoolchildren and beginners. The Bruaysien nautical club was founded the same year, and the Franco-Polish club "Les Requins" followed in 1937, soon demanding privileged training access.
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