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(Image taken in November 2001. Author’s own collection.)
A main pool out on a wide rock platform plus a separate concrete formed children’s pool nearby.
This pool was created in the 1930s Depression to cater for campers rather than local people.
Location
Bridges Road, Werri Beach, NSW, 2534, Australia
(Latitude South 34 degrees 44 minutes 39 seconds, Longitude East 150 degrees 50 minutes 10 seconds)
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(Image taken May 2003. Author’s own collection.)
Formalised ladies baths at South Flagstaff Point developed from a ladies bathing place, that was in use for generations before a surf club existed at Wollongong’s South Beach. This ocean pool catered for lap swimmers and could stage swimming carnivals.
This is the younger of the two ocean pools created to serve the women of Wollongong and the town’s female visitors. Once a significant visitor attraction, this pool featured on early twentieth-century postcards of Wollongong and is now part of the Wollongong Harbour Heritage Trail.
Location
Marine Drive, South Flagstaff Point, Wollongong, NSW, 2500, Australia
(Latitude South 34 degrees 25 minutes 22 seconds, Longitude East 150 degrees 54 minutes 34 seconds)
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(Image taken on 3 May 2003. Author’s own collection.)
Ghost pool. Remnants of a small square pool created immediately beside the men’s pool on the rock platform on the open beach on the north side of the Belmore Basin at Wollongong. Easily accessed from a sealed cycleway/walking track on the site of the former tram-line from the Harbour to the Mount Pleasant coal mine.
Location
Cliff Road, Wollongong, NSW, 2500, Australia
(Latitude South 34 degrees 25 minutes 05 seconds, Longitude East 150 degrees 54 minutes 11 seconds)
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(Image taken on 11 August 2001. Author’s own collection)
Rectangular main pool with an attached children’s pool. Close to the surf club. View of the Woonona Baths to the south.
This pool featured on early twentieth-century postcards.
Trinity Row, Bulli, NSW, 2516, Australia
(Latitude South 34 degree 20 minutes 23 seconds, Longitude East 150 degrees 55 minutes 35 seconds)
South Coast Winter Swimming Association
(Image taken in February 2003. Author’s own collection.)
Children’s bathing pool at the foot of the steep cliff of Austinmer’s Brickyard Point, easily accessed from neighbouring beaches. Largely covered by sand back in 2003.
Pool name
This pool has been known as Little Austinmer Children’s Pool, Austinmer Children’s Baths, and North Austinmer Baths.
Location
Yuroga Street, Austinmer, NSW, 2515, Australia
(Latitude South 34 degrees 18 minutes 08 seconds, Longitude East 150 degrees 56 minutes 27 seconds)
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