Fraser grew up in Balmain, learned to swim here and was spotted by coach Harry Gallagher here at age 13.
A Heritage Building, it is on the National Trust and on the Register of the National Estate. It is a salt water tidal pool on Sydney Harbour. It was built in the early 1880s. The first water polo match in Australia was played here about 1888.
There's a great set of photos on flickr - here. The ones below are mine.
2 comments:
i like your swimming blog.
i have a pair of gills, too.
What a wonderful Blog. I LIVE swimming esp POOLS. We have a few good ones here near where I live on the North Coast NSW and my great uncles are said to have dynamited Mahon Pool Maroubra originally. Thank you for these images. Yrs. L.
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