The Wainuiomata Swimming Baths officially opened on 25 November 1967. The pool was funded by the community through events such as the annual Baths Fund Christmas Parade.
Swimming in Wainuiomata before the baths opened, 1959 – Boys swimming in dammed river, at Boys’ Brigade camp, Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt. Ref: EP/1959/4396b-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Parade at Petone, Wellington, for swimming baths fund, showing unidentified young men dressed in costumes and holding signs, December 1959. Ref: EP/1959/4308-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. [The original caption notes this is in Wainuiomata but we believe the photo to be in front of the Austin Factory in Petone]Parade at Wainuiomata, Wellington, for swimming baths fund, showing unidentified man dressed in a Santa Claus costume with a wheelbarrow, in front of a bus which reads ‘Wainuiomata Amateur Swimming Club’, December 1959. Ref: EP/1959/4309-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. In the early 1970s the main pool was extended to Olympic size and in 1984 a hydroslide was added.
Wainuiomata Swimming Baths, 1971. Hutt City Libraries Collection.
Photograph showing Wainuiomata’s swimming pool and the opening of the 80-meter waterslide through bush, c1970s. Hutt City Libraries Collection.
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The man with the barrow is Keith Jacobs.
My grandfather.
Nice one. I helped moved the blocks for Keith Jacobs, my neighbour from across the road.
Craig Hartwig