Watch as heavy machine tears into Halifax swimming pool as demolition continues
Work to knock down Halifax Swimming Pool has reached a new milestone.
As this video shows, heavy machinery has started tearing into the roof and walls of the building on Skircoat Road.
Approval for the demolition of the building, which has been shut since the pandemic, was granted last year.
Councillors were told at a meeting in June 2025 that the plan was to clear the site for development.
The pool closed in 2020 because of the pandemic and Calderdale Council’s then Labour administration took the decision to close it permanently, saying the 1960s building was beyond economic repair.
A new pool is being included in a new leisure centre being built on the site of the existing one at North Bridge.
The Halifax Swimming Pool building included a mosaic by one of the 20th century’s most celebrated ceramic artists, Kenneth Barden.
This is still likely to be viewable but only in digital form, councillors were told last year as a condition survey had found the mosaic tiles were in too fragile a state to survive being moved.
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