1932: Hendy Pool was built by volunteer miners

1933: Hendy Pool was officially opened by unemployed miners

1983: The pool served the community until its fiftieth anniversary, in 1983 it was donated to the council who modernised it

1998: Threatened with closer from the county council a campaign was led by villagers. The county council had wanted to close the lido because they felt it was uneconomical, as the outdoor lido only served the community for twelve weeks of the year.

1999: The new Hendy Pool committee was formed by campaigners. The new committee was made of volunteers from within the local community, who run the pool on behalf of the County Council with a small grant of ￡7,000 a year.

2001: The pool started leaking when the wall of pool formed a crack

2002 Late Summer: During the winter of 2001/2002 the leak in the wall became a major crack which forced the county to close the pool because of the structural failure.

2004: The campaign to save the pool was stepped up when two public meetings in November 2004 and February 2005, attracted more than 200 villagers to attend public meetings

2005 Feb: New pool committee formed to look at ways to save the pool

2006:  With a petition of 2800 presented to the county council to save the pool and a fundraising event in the Red Lion raising ￡5,000, the county council eventually agreed for a feasibility study to be carried out in 2007

2006 Mar: A National lido conference was held in London with Lidos from across the UK attending, Hendy's delegate was Nia Griffith MP

2006 June: Hendy school entered a float in the canival and the committee had a stall collecting signatures for the petition.

2006 Aug: Simply Red tribute held a fund raising concert for the pool at the Red Lion which raised £5,000.

2006 Nov: Residents were asking what was the ￡5,000 raised earlier in the year going to be spent on 7 members of the pool committee launched a news letter which they decided to call  "Both Sides of the Bridge"  this News letter was launched to advice community about hendy pool campaign and other community news

2006 Dec: CAVS award a grant to develop web page

2007: County council awarded a grant of ￡9.500 to fund a feasibilty study

2008: Feasibilty Study by Hyder Consultants is ongoing

2008 Feb: Assembly Minister Leighton Andrews and Assembly Member Alun Davies came to Hendy to meet The Wales Scouting Movement who have been involved in the feasibility study

2008 Feb: This web page is finally launched with news articles and photos kindly supplied by the Evening Post