The Hepburn Pool was built in Spring Creek during the 1930s by the Zelman's of Bellinzona Guest House. Alberto Zelman's paid for local workers to construct the pool to their specifications so the visitors to local guest houses could swim on hot days. The Hepburn Pool was used for the Victorian Swimming Championships, with 6 stones marked at one end for each lane . It is 50 yards long, the length required for competitions. In 1969 the Daylesford Olympic Swimming Pool was constructed so this 'old swimming pool' was neglected, fortunately in 1993 local volunteers associated with the Savoia Hotel returned the pool to its former glory with the help of old photos and a lot of hard work. Two well known swimmers swam at the pool in the Victorian swimming Championships, they were Annette Kellerman and Frank Beaurepaire. The Pool was named Victoria's Favourite Built Place in 2004 as part of the Victorian Government's involvement in the International Year of the Built Environment. It was included on the Victorian Heritage Register following a nomination and comparative analysis of pre Olympic Swimming Pools in Victoria by Lisa Gervasoni.Black and white image from a glass plate of the Hepburn Pool in Spring Creek, with spectators on the hill. and swimmers in the water.hepburn springs swimming pool, hepburn springs, hepburn pool, pre-olympic swimming pools, albert zelman, bellinzona, pre-0lympic swimming pool

The Hepburn Pool was built in Spring Creek during the 1930s by the Zelman's of Bellinzona Guest House. Alberto Zelman's paid for local workers to construct the pool to their specifications so the visitors to local guest houses could swim on hot days. The Hepburn Pool was used for the Victorian Swimming Championships, with 6 stones marked at one end for each lane . It is 50 yards long, the length required for competitions. In 1969 the Daylesford Olympic Swimming Pool was constructed so this 'old swimming pool' was neglected, fortunately in 1993 local volunteers associated with the Savoia Hotel returned the pool to its former glory with the help of old photos and a lot of hard work. Two well known swimmers swam at the pool in the Victorian swimming Championships, they were Annette Kellerman and Frank Beaurepaire. The Pool was named Victoria's Favourite Built Place in 2004 as part of the Victorian Government's involvement in the International Year of the Built Environment. It was included on the Victorian Heritage Register following a nomination and comparative analysis of pre Olympic Swimming Pools in Victoria by Lisa Gervasoni.Black and white imageof the Hepburn Pool in Spring Creek, with spectators on the hill. hepburn springs swimming pool, hepburn springs, hepburn pool, pre-olympic swimming pools, albert zelman, bellinzona, pre-0lympic swimming pool

The Hepburn Pool was built in Spring Creek during the 1930s by the Zelmans of Bellinzona Guest House. Alberto Zelman paid for local workers to construct the pool to their specifications so the visitors to local guest houses could swim on hot days. The Hepburn Pool was used for the Victorian Swimming Championships, with 6 stones marked at one end for each lane. It is 50 yards long, the length required for competitions. In 1935 the Hepburn Amateur Swimming Club organised their first swimming carnival, the meeting conducted by the Victorian Amateur Swimming Association, In 1969 the Daylesford Olympic Swimming Pool was constructed so this 'old swimming pool' was neglected. Fortunately in 1993 local volunteers associated with the Savoia Hotel returned the pool to its former glory with the help of old photos and a lot of hard work. Two well known swimmers swam at the pool in the Victorian swimming Championships, they were Annette Kellerman and Frank Beaurepaire. The Pool was named Victoria's Favourite Built Place in 2004 as part of the Victorian Government's involvement in the International Year of the Built Environment. It was included on the Victorian Heritage Register following a nomination and comparative analysis of pre Olympic Swimming Pools in Victoria by Lisa Gervasoni.Black and white photograph of the Hepburn Pool in Spring Creek, including the diving board.hepburn springs swimming pool, hepburn springs, hepburn pool, pre-olympic swimming pools, albert zelman, bellinzona, annette kellerman, frank beaurepaire, victorian amateur swimming association, hepburn amateur swimming club

The Avoca Pre Olypmic Swimming Pool is a 25 metre pool thay was built before the Olympic era of Swimming Pools in Victoria.Colour photograph of the Avoca Swimming Pool.swimming, pool, sport, pre olympic, avoca, avoca swimming pool

Located in Surrey Park, this photo was taken about 1909-1912. The Surrey Hills Swimming Club formed in 1906 and swimming carnivals were popular from this time. The dive was created from a clay hole formed during brick-making activity at the adjacent brick works. From 1906 Carnivals were popular events. Olympic competitors trained here until Councils built Olympic-sized pools. Photo by William V Hill of Pembroke Street. Donor Mr Bill Dempsey was his nephew.A black and white photograph of a group of 15 young men standing and sitting on diving boards and a platform near some stairs. Most are wearing long trunks covering their thighs and singlets. One person is wearing a boater hat.surrey dive, swimmers, bathing costumes, surrey hills swimming club, box hill brick works, festivals and celebrations, olympics, (mr) william v hill

This photograph was taken in the 1960s of the Lake Sambell Swimming Pool with the lake itself in the background. The swimming pool area has multiple features including park benches, a water slide, and a fenced area with a diving pontoon for lap swimming and racing. Lake Sambell Swimming Pool was completed in 1961, driven largely by R.E. Carter, Beechworth shire engineer from 1954-63. Carter advocated for improvements to the lake and surrounding area in order to encourage tourism in Beechworth. The opening of the swimming pool was part of many improvements to Lake Sambell made during this period by Carter including establishing the caravan park in 1959, water skiing and boating facilities, and increasing the lake surface in 1964. These improvements were financed mainly by grants from the Tourist Development Authority. For many decades, members of the local Beechworth community had advocated for the development of swimming pool at the lake that would include a safe wadding area and Olympic standard lanes for laps and races. Throughout the 1940s the Beechworth Swimming Club tried to raise awareness and funds to address the structural engineering issues, raise the water levels, and improve swimming facilities at the lake. Beechworth Swimming Club hosted a swimming carnival at the lake in 1948, but it was decided due to several issues at the event, that no further carnivals would be hosted until necessary improvements were made to the area. Swimming pools, both artificial and built into natural environments, were an extremely popular public space throughout the 20th century in Australia. Increasing in accessibility and popularity through such developments as less restrictive swimming outfits during 1920s, public building works during the 1920s and 30s, and an increase in leisure time during a period of post-war prosperity. This photograph is of historical significance as it documents the newly established Lake Sambell Swimming Pool in the 1960s after many decades of discussion and proposals around creating a safe swimming area at the lake. Further, this photograph provides important social insights into the facilities and uses of this pool in the 1960s, and underlines the significant role public swimming pools have played in Australian social and recreational experiences. Black and white rectangle photograph printed on photographic paper and unmounted.Reverse: 3537 / C798lake sambell swimming pool, lake sambell water slide, water slide 1960s, lake sambell pontoon, lake sambell 1960s, lake swimming pool, lake swimming, beechworth swimming club, swimming pools in the 20th century, r.e. carter, tourist development authority, beechworth 1960s, lake water slide, lake sambell, wadding pool, swimming, swimming pool 1960s, leisure, recreation 1960s

'Bendigo Advertiser' newspaper article discussing the naming of the Kangaroo Flat pool. Newspaper article discusses the history of Bendigo pools. Makes mention of Faith Leech, 1956 Olympic swimmer. Also makes mention to the 1880's petition signed by Golden Square residents agitating for a pool. 2 pages. Newspaper dated 25th November, 2017. Newspaper article on Kangaroo Flat pool. Article from 'Bendigo Advertiser'. November, 2017. Two full pages containing images and text. bendigo pools, pool, faith leech

These scrap books were put together by Tom Riggs, a past St. Albans Train Station Master, St. Albans Centenary Committee & Sunshine & District Historical Society member and they record a history of a wide range of subjects referring to the Sunshine & District. The following list is only a brief description of each scrapbook. 663.01 - People in official postions 1908|H.V. McKay Factory Gates|Part layout in vicinity of Sunshine Railway Station map 1910|Sunshine Station Signal Box|Harvester Museum|H.V. McKay|H.V. McKay Bulk Store|Sunshine's colorful history|Family of Nathaniel & Mary McKay family tree|Sunshine Smithy|Braybrook residents 1903 & 1906 Sands & McDougal listing|Nat & Joyce Wright|Sunshine Market Palce|Sunshine new police station|Sunshine new post office|S&DHS newspaper articles|Black Powder Mill|Deer Park St. John's Anglican Church|Robert Eric Parsons|Rubblish dumping issue|Bob & Cyril Parsons|Deer Park Bypass|Sunshine Leisure Centre|Sunshine Station Interchange|Dorothy Price|Sunshine Hospital expansion|Albert & Amy Russell|Wally O'Brien|Hospital pedestrain crossing|Our Lady's Primary School reunion|Mytle Baylis|Darling Albion Flour Mill|Pokie machines|Harricks Cottage|Jack Tighe|Cr Brooke Gujinovic New Brimank Mayor|Jack Collins|Isabella Williams Reserve|Cairnlea developement|Albert Holden|Old Sunsine Police Station Sun Crescent|Big bins|Phyllis Vance|Sunshine Pipe Band|Dick & Elsie Whiting|Historic house denmiolition|Boom gate deley|Brian & Doreen Duffy|Beth Argyle|Sunshine Railway Disaster|Les Hunter|Sunshine Pool closure protest|Clare Brennan|Mickey Vautier|Jack Sheridan|Balam Balam Reserve|Gwen Goedecke|Derrimut Hotel & licensee Wal Elms|Jimmy Gaylor|John & Leone Hawking|Centrelink move|Joan Carstairs|Hampshire Road roadworks|Lloyd McCallum postman retires|Mavis Kittelty & Sunshine Croquet Club closes|Frank O'Connor|Beth Argyle, Don Deeble, Shirley Wallace & Jack Sheridan|Sunshine Anglican Church & Father Stuart Soley|Ian Baker|Morris Street proposed flat development protest|Brimbank's rich cultural history|Church of Christ|Doreen Foster & Albion Tennis Club|Francis & Lillian Allen|Sunshine Wesleyan Methodist Churst|3LO-3AR radio transmitter|George & Gloria Hales|H.V. McKay Medal Trade Wing|Lorna Cameron|Noala Flynn|St. Ablans Baptist Church & Ralph Phillips|Apostolic Christian Church|Keilor Christian City Church|Sunshine City Band|Maidstone Our Ladys of Perpetual Church|Waterways|Ron & Margaret Craker 663.02 - Black Powder Mill|St. Albans Greek Orthodox Church of St. Paraskeve|Western Ring Road traffic|Joseph & Frances Testa|Sydneham Kimgdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses|Sydenham The Assemblies of God|Michael & Rosalia Skok|Werribee's State Rose Gardens|Tom & Maria Diele|Tom Rigg and the origin of the district's street names|Sunshine & St. Albans Baptist Church|ICI Estate protest|Sunshine Salvation Army Church|Macedonian Orthodox Church|Anita-Marie Neumann|Albanvale path of recongnition|Sunshine Pool action group|Minnie Gorsuch|State Election 2000|Jean Folry & Ilma Weir|Brimbank Uniting Church|Harvester Town book launch - Olwen Ford|Brooke Jujinovic|Keilor Cemetery grave stones|John Howard ignores Braybrook|Norman & Joan Wales|Clare Brennan Drive named after Clare Brennan|Fosseys Sunshine closure|Commonwealth Bank (CBA) Glengala Road closuer|James Frederick McKay|A history of Sunshine|H.V. McKay's Russell Street gates|Barry McMahon|Sunshine Swimming Pool Aquatic centre sale|Keith Buckley|Migrants' move to brave new world|Vasilos & Eugenia Karaoglandis|William Hyett|Darryl Myers|Kathleen Inkster|Sunshine RSL Kevin Keegan, Kevin Bryar & Fred Russell|Barney & Renee Cater|Mona Malouf|George Carter|Sunshine Pottery memorabilia & reunion|Des Johnson Duke Street Aborigine artifacts|Albert Drayton|Two pools planned|Sunshine Pool repairs approved|Olympic Tooch journey through Brimbank|Maurice & Kathleen Sanders|Paul & Suzanna Vicek|Deer Park By Pass Road|Bert & Noreen Craddock|St. Albans Legless Lizards under fire|Sunshine rare orchid scare|St. Albans Road black spot|Viet name for Burke street|Russell Street gates unveiling ceremony|Don & Val Byrnes|Emily Hall|Sunshine Swim centre|Water action plans|Melton Highway sugar gum tree removal by Vicroads|Sunshine Police Station Olympic Rings Brick|Emmaus Catholic School Sydenham opening|Black Powder Mill|Stevens Farm House fire|Yvonne Flack|Frank Gathercole|Commonwealth Bank closurer|Marion Martin|Deer Park State School|Tom & Flo Beagley|Call for railway land buffer|Clarrie Salvador|Braybrook Hotel|Sunshine Harvester Smithy|2000, A year to remember|Bus Re-route hits traders|Sunshine Swimming Pool end of life|Pam Chapman|Prune Goldrick - When the Whistle Blew|Wally O'Brien recalls Deer Park during his childhood|Western Highway / Ballarat Road traffic|Tom Rigg confusing St. Albans bus signs|Rubbish in Deer Park|Phyllis Frost|Basil Morcos|Allan "Titch" Williams|George Thoms|Clarrie Salvator|Tom Dile|Igor Balabin|John McArdie|Sam & Rita Attard|Jack & Dorothy Roberts|Joe De Gabriele|Beth Argyle|John Refshauge surgeon|Bill Fogarity|Brimbank Heritage Listing in peril|Museum of Victoria virtually tour of H.V. McHarvester Factory|Jock McLeod|John & lorna Stainer|Rita Shimmin|Smithy|Nettlefolds - Len Duxon, Betty Scott, Frank Richards, Thelma Burnett, Reg Ratcliffe & Frank Farrugia|Emma Broadhead|Bill Bunting|Gwen Goedecke|Ron Dorre|Sunshine Hospital Redevelopment|Braybrook Squash Centre|Megan Blair|Harvester Town book launch|Tom Rigg rail safty activist|Lloyd & Gislaine Simpson|Sunshine's past revealed|Legless Lizards site Jones Creek|Wetlands|St. Albans time capsule|Cainlea suburb name causing a stir|Agnes Clark|Norman de Pomeroy|Ern & Dot Nicholls|Anton & Maria Gerber|Peter & Margaret McManus|H.V. McKay Offices heritage listing|Cr. Chris Evans out|Two historial walks in Sunshine|Brink Back the H.V. McKay Smithy opening invite|Counicl destroys old files|Harricks Cottage|Special Exhibution Models of Sunshine made farn implements exhibition invite 663.03 - Wally O'Brien|Cr. Chris Evans|Sunshine pool debate|Black Powder Mill|Sydnenham / Hillside Primary School name changes|Say goodbye to Sydnenham, Watergardens|Spalding Reuion|Harry Unger|Gwen Goedecke|Frances Fitzgerald|Preerving Brimbank's significant landmarks|Bernard Reilly kindergarten train|Albert Holden|St. Peters Channel Catholic Church|Terry Muscat|Smithy|Norman & Geoff Pomeroy|Sunshine disaster recalled|Sydneham Railway Station|Sunshine Baseball Club|Albert Evans|Sunshine Pool anger|Albion car crash|Jackson School to loose portables|Black Powder Mill|John Kontek|Harvester basic wage case|Sushine Harvester & Offices complex|Deer Park Primary School|Sunshine underpass / subway shame|Albion Railway Station Rolando & Lilia Antonio|Furlong Road tragery|Anita Ciancio & baby Montana kidnapping|Harricks Cottage|Fence to keep out snakes|Shire of Braybrook Financial & Rate records donated to S&DHS|Bikini protest in Council Chambers|Talintyre Reserve name change from Tallintyre Reserve|Peter Somerville and the Blackbird|Keith Miller|Gerald Griggs|St. Albans Hume & Hovell cairn in the move|Iramoo Committee|Shopping bags ban|Harvester City, the making of Multicultural Sunshine book grant|Susan Jennison|Melchior Bajada|Ray Carlton book donation to Sunshine Library|Hampshire Road connection the Market Place with the Plaza|Girls should be girlsSunshine & Districtsunshine advocate, brimbank messenger, newspaper

This photo records one of the swimming carnivals held at the Surrey Dive, the first of which was organised in 1907. It was at the 1907 carnival that champion swimmer Frank Beaurepaire won the one-mile championship in record time. In the era before purpose-built municipal swimming pools, Surrey Dive was a popular destination for swimming and people came to it from many Melbourne suburbs. It operated from 1905 to 1967. It was the newly formed Surrey Park Swimming Club (established in 1905) that petitioned the Box Hill Council to purchase the former quarry site associated with the Box Hill Brick Works. A ramp, bathing sheds, springboards, and eventually a 10-lane course were developed, making the Dive the first Olympic standard pool in Australia. The carnivals attracted huge crowds. The original use as a quarry explains the notorious depth of the swimming hole and the sheer, steep cliffs surrounding it. These posed obvious safety issues, as did the water quality. Ivy Lavinia Weber, who was the second woman to be elected to the Victorian parliament (the first at a general election) and renowned for her commitment to health and physical fitness, campaigned for State government assistance to build new baths. These were built adjacent to the Dive and were opened in 1939. The Dive continued as a facility used by experienced swimmers until 1967 when it closed due to the drought causing the water to dry up. Today the site has been turned into an ornamental lake. This image was used as a mural in the refurbishment of the Box Hill Aqualink. The image has strong associations with early industry (brick making), recreation and particularly the early history of the sport of swimming.Black and white photo with a white border. Scan shows image only. It shows 3 men diving from a wooden platform into an area of water beneath higher banks. There is a boat in the background, a building to the LHS of the photo and many spectators in boater hats on the platform, some in bathing suits along a ledge and many around the top of the bank. Two men in the LH foreground may be officials.Printed long the bottom edge of the frame: "An image from history - Carnival Day at the Dive. / (photo: Box Hill Council)"surrey dive, box hill brick works, swimming, surrey park swimming club, (mr) frank beaurepaire, (mrs) ivy lavinia weber, swimming carnivals