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Andrew 'Boy' Charlton Pool
This collection contains a small selection of archives relating to the Andrew 'Boy' Charlton Pool and former baths on the western side of Woolloomooloo Bay.
A popular bathing area was known as the Fig Tree and the first bathing enclosure there dates from about 1825.
On 4 May 1857, council resolved that 'it is highly expedient on a sanatory measure that this Council take into prompt consideration the necessity that exists for the establishment of Public Baths In the City of Sydney, and that the matter be referred to the Improvement Committee with instructions to report on the same showing in such Report, the most desirable locality, the best plan to be adopted for their construction and an estimate of the probable expense of the same'.
Between 1858 and 1860 the Council constructed a free public baths, called the Corporation Male Baths but generally known as the Fig Tree Baths.
In 1903 the Corporation Baths were pulled down and a new complex was built.
A new swimming pool called the Domain Baths opened on 17 October 1908. In 1955 the Ladies and Free Baths were demolished. The Domain Baths were replaced by the Andrew (Boy) Charlton Pool in 1968.
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References
Dictionary of Sydney
CollectionBaths and Swimming PoolsWoolloomooloo
Memorandum - Improvements required to prevent small fish and jellyfish in Baths, Woolloomooloo, 1880





