McIver Women's Baths
The McIver Women's Baths , also known as McIver Baths or Coogee Women's Pool , is a listed swimming pool located on the south beach of Coogee in New South Wales . This rock pool looks back on a long history as one of the first women's swimming pools in Australia .
To this day, only women with their female children are allowed into this bathroom; boys up to the age of 13 are only allowed in with their mothers.
location
The Rockpool is founded on a rocky platform south of Coogee Beach and is bordered by concrete walls. Behind the 33-meter-long swimming pool rises a rocky cliff, over which a staircase with handrails enables older women to access the pool. The swimming pool can be flooded by the surf , but the water depth in the entire pool is shallow so that non-swimmers can use it. There are other rock pools on Coogee Beach near the pool. These are the Ross Jones Memorial Pool , Mahon Pool and Wylie's Baths . These baths are fully accessible to both sexes, one of which is just 450 meters from the McIver Women's Baths .
history
The Eora Aborigines already used the beach area for fishing, swimming and recreation, with the southern stretch of beach reserved for women and the northern stretch for men.
The first public bath in Australia was opened as a men's bath in 1826. The first women's bathhouses appeared in Australia in the 1830s. The area in which the Rockpool is located was used for bathing by European settler women as early as the 1830s.
The McIver Women's Baths was built from 1876 to 1886. Generations of women came to this bath: These were mothers with their children, older women, also disabled women and women from Islamic and Catholic communities. The Randwick Council , the managed this bath as a public institution, it opened in 1876 as a woman swimming pool.
This pool was also used by Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie , who took part in the first Olympic swimming competition in women's freestyle swimming over 100 meters in Oslo in 1912 . Fanny Durack won the gold medal and Mina Wylie the silver medal. These were the first ever Olympic medals for Australian women swimmers.
In 1918 the swimming pool was privatized and it was transferred to Robert and Rose McIver. In 1923 it was taken over by the Coogee Ladies Amateur Swimming Club , which still manages it today.
Others
In 1995, a Coogee resident referred to an ordinance , the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 , prohibiting gender segregation in public New South Wales establishments. The then government then did not apply this ordinance to the McIver Women's Baths . In 2010, when a man entered the swimming pool and stated that he was transgender , he had to leave it again.
This pool is one of the few rock pools in Australia that charge an entry fee. However, it is low at 20 cents per person.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mcivers Baths , on swimmingsydneythemrsgspot.wordpress.com. Retrieved September 26, 2016
- ↑ a b c McIver Women's Baths , at www.environment.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved September 26, 2016
- ↑ Martha or Arthur? Cossies in a twist at ladys on bath , December 11, 2010, at smh.com.au. Retrieved September 27, 2016
Coordinates: 33 ° 55 ′ 27.7 ″ S , 151 ° 15 ′ 30.5 ″ E
