Dictionary of Sydney

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Wylie's Baths

Ocean baths built at the southern end of Coogee Beach in the early twentieth century.

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Milestone
Opened
12 Dec 1907
Closed
1974
Opened
1978
Name
Commemorates
Alternate
Sunset Pool
1959 - 1978
Position
1959 - 1978
1994
Type

Wylie's Baths

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2008

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.