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Bronte Baths c1915

From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a191056 / PXE 1028, f56]
(Mitchell Library)

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Wylie's Baths

Ocean baths were established south of Coogee beach in 1907 by Henry Wylie, father of Australia's first champion woman swimmer, Mina Wylie. They have been inspirational to swimmers, painters and filmmakers, and are still open.

Ocean baths

Rock baths, ocean pools and bogey holes have provided Sydney swimmers with 'wild' swimming that is nevertheless protected, linking the suburban with the sublime all along Sydney's coastline.

Pools

Swimming

Beach Culture

Bronte Beach

Small beach between Tamarama and Clovelly.

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Bronte Baths

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Ocean baths at Bronte Beach.

Bronte

Eastern beachside suburb, between Tamarama and Clovelly. Its name comes from Bronte House and its estate, whch was most likely named after the British naval hero Lord Nelson, who was created Duke of Bronte by the King of Naples in 1799.

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