Colour photograph of the Williamstown Swimming Pool.swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, williamstown, williamstown swimming pool

Colour photograph of a natural swimming pool at Marysville. swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, marysville, lake, marysville swimming pool, marysville swimming hole

Colour photograph of the Chiltern Swimming Pool.swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, concrete, chiltern, chiltern swimming pool

Colour photograph of the Werribee Swimming Pool.swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, concrete, werribee, werribee swimming pool

Colour photograph of the Wycheproof Swimming Pool.swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, concrete, wycheproof, wycheproof swimming pool

Colour photograph of the Beaufort Swimming Pool.swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, concrete, beaufort swimming pool

Colour photograph of the Swimming pool at Healesville, Victoria.swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, concrete, healesville, healesville swimming pool

Colour photograph of the Camperdown Swimming Pool.swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, concrete, camperdown swiming pool

Colour photographed of a decommissioned swimming pool at Buninyong, Victoria. swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, concrete, buninyong, buninyong swimming pool

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Colour photograph of the Swimming Pool at Broadford, Victoria. swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, concrete, broadford, broadford swimming pool

In 1892 the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works established the Metropolitan Sewage Farm on the western bank of the Werribee River, to treat the effluent from Melbourne's new sewerage system.This area was isolated and too far from Melbourne, so the Cocoroc village was built to house the workers.Colour photograph of the Cocoroc Swimming Pool. This pool was built by the town's residents.swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, concrete, cocoroc, cocoroc swimming pool

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Colour photograph of a stretch in the river where the Greensborough Swimming Pool was located. swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, natural, creek, greensborough, steps, greensborough swimming pool

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There are many reports of early swimming holes in 19th Century Victoria. Between the period 1895 - 1920, most rural Councils were under pressure to provide more formalised bathing arrangements. Often this occurred through the building of wooden enclosures in rivers, the damming of creeks, the construction of lakes, or the utilisation of old pits for the purpose.Colour photograph of the site of the former Kilmore Pool, now a reservoir on the Kilmore Golf Club. swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, natural, lake, kilmore, pre-olympic

Colour photograph of a swimming enclosure at Brighton Beach, Victoria.swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, natural, ocean, brighton, brighton beach swimming pool

Colour photograph of the Mornington Sea Baths.swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, natural, ocean, mornington, mornington sea baths, mornington swimming pool

Colour photograph of the ocean swimming pool at Sorrento. swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, natural, ocean, sorrento, sorrento ocean swimming pool

Colour photograph of the Brunswick City Swimming Pool.swimming pool, sport, swimming, pre olympic, baths, brunswick, brunswick baths, brunswick swimming pool, pre olympic swiming pool

Colour photograph of the Castlemaine Swimming Pool. castlemaine, castlemaine swimming pool, pre-olympic swimming pool

Colour photograph of the Castlemaine Swimming Pool. castlemaine, castlemaine swimming pool, pre-olympic swimming pool

Colour photograph of the Castlemaine Swimming Pool. castlemaine, castlemaine swimming pool, pre-olympic swimming pool

Colour photograph of the Castlemaine Swimming Pool. castlemaine, castlemaine swimming pool, pre-olympic swimming pool

Colour photograph of the Kyneton Swimming Pool.swimming, pool, sport, pre olympic, kyneton, kyneton swmming pool

Colour photograph of the Branzholme Swimming Pool.swimming, pool, sport, pre olympic, branxholme, branzholme swimming pool

Colour photograph of the Cohuna Swimming Pool.swimming, pool, sport, pre olympic, cohuna, cohuna swimming pool

Colour photograph of the Boort Swimming Pool.swimming, pool, sport, pre olympic, boort, boort swimming pool

Colour photograph of the Balmoral Swimming Pool.swimming, pool, sport, pre olympic, balmoral, balmoral swimming pool

Colour photograph of the Mortlake Swimming Pool.swimming, pool, sport, pre olympic, mortlake, mortlake swimming pool, mortlake baths