Wylie's Baths

Wylie's Baths
Address Neptune Street, Coogee Beach, Sydney
Postcode 2034
Opened 1907 (1907)
Operator
Owner Randwick City Council
Type Tidal pool
Former names Sunset Pool
Status
Website www.wylies.com.au

Wylie's Baths is a tidal pool near Coogee Beach, in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,[1] noted for holding the first Australian Swimming Championships[2] and for being one of the first swimming baths for mixed gender swimming in Australia.[3]

History and current management

Wylie's Baths was built in 1907 by Henry Wylie,[4] who was the father of Mina Wylie who, along with Fanny Durack, were Australia's first female Olympic swimming representatives, and Australia's first woman gold and silver medallists respectively.

From 1959 to 1978, the baths were called Sunset Pool.[2]

Wylie's Baths is run by a management committee established in 1978[5] comprising representatives from South Maroubra Dolphins Winter Swimming Club, Randwick & Coogee Amateur Swimming Club,[6] the Coogee-Randwick RSL Diggers Swimming Club and the Coogee Surf Life Saving Club.[7]

A 1994 refurbishment of the Wylie's Baths, designed by architects Allen Jack+Cottier, won the 1995 RAIA NSW Greenway Award for Restoration.[8]

The baths are classified by the National Trust of Australia[3] and on the NSW State Heritage Register of the NSW Department of Planning and Environment since 2003.[9][10]

References

  1. ↑ UBD Sydney Street Directory, Universal Publishers Pty Ltd, 2010
  2. 1 2 "Wylie's Baths". About Randwick - Heritage - A to Z of people and places. Randwick City Council. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Wylie's Baths—mixed swimming". Australia's modern swimmers and ocean baths. Australian Government. 12 January 2009. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
  4. ↑ Slarke, Eileen (2001). A Century of Wylie's Baths Coogee. Wylie's Baths Trust Inc.
  5. ↑ Brombey, Hazel; Daly, Maurie (1996). Randwick & Coogee Amateur Swimming Club 1896-1996.
  6. ↑ "Randwick & Coogee Amateur Swimming Club".
  7. ↑ "Coogee Surf Lifesaving Club".
  8. ↑ "RAIA Gold Medallist 2001". Architecture Australia. Vol. 90 (2). 1 March 2001. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  9. ↑ Daly, Gary; Veitch, Harriet (20 October 2009). "Sense of community ran from credit unions to Wylies Baths: Maurie Daly, 1934-2009". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  10. ↑ "Wylies Baths". NSW State Heritage Register. Government of New South Wales. 26 June 1998. Retrieved 23 August 2016.

Coordinates: 33°55′32.33″S 151°15′33.91″E / 33.9256472°S 151.2594194°E / -33.9256472; 151.2594194

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