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The Hills Shire Council War Memorial Swimming Centre (Demolished)

The Hills Shire Council War Memorial Swimming Centre (Demolished)
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The Hills Shire Council War Memorial Swimming Centre, view of pool from side
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The Hills Shire Council War Memorial Swimming Centre, entrance sign
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The Hills Shire Council War Memorial Swimming Centre, plaque
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The Hills Shire Council War Memorial Swimming Centre, external view
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The Hills Shire Council War Memorial Swimming Centre, poolside patio
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The Hills Shire Council War Memorial Swimming Centre, with rose garden in view
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The Hills Shire Council War Memorial Swimming Centre, pathways and flagpoles
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The Hills Shire Council War Memorial Swimming Centre, Toona australis and sign
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Description / Background

Note: This war memorial swimming pool has been redeveloped. The new facility is called the Waves Fitness & Aquatic Centre. The original opening plaque for the War Memorial Swimming Centre is mounted inside the Aquatic Centre building, to remember the commemorative history of the site. The Waves Aquatic and Fitness Centre War Memorial has also been erected at the new site. 

Former description:

The Hills Shire Council War Memorial Swimming Centre was opened on 11 March 1967 by the Hon. P. H. Morton, M.L.A., Minister for Local Government and Highways, in the presence of the Shire President Mr B. A. Mullane, 10 Shire councillors, the Shire Engineer, Shire Clerk and the Shire Health Surveyor.

Facilities include an outdoor, heated 50-metre pool, enclosed learn-to-swim pool and undercover baby's pool, a fully equipped fitness centre, cafe and large grassed areas throughout the facility. The eight-lane, 50-metre swimming pool was heated in 1992 and opened all year round from 1996.

Outside the entrance there are two 6-metre tall flagpoles, surrounded by a natural bush rock garden with pathways. Growing inside the garden is a Toona australis deciduous rainforest tree, indigenous to NSW and Northern Queensland and prized for its fine timber qualities. It was milled to near extinction during early settlement.

Surrounding the swimming centre is the Alfred Henry Whaling Memorial Reserve and sports/athletics fields. The athletics field has a 400-metre oval track and two 100-metre straight tracks. The field also has a long jump pit, shot-putt cage and javelin area. The area immediately to the north of the field is also used as an additional long jump pit, shot-putt cage and javelin area.

Behind the swimming centre is the Roxborough Park Rose Garden, maintained by the Hills Shire (otherwise known as the Garden Shire) next to an athletics field. It is a beautiful garden with over 100 varieties of roses.

The Alfred Henry Whaling Memorial Reserve Rose Garden was established in 1972. It occupies over 8,000 square meters of land and is reported to be the largest of its kind in the Sydney region.

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The Hills Shire Council War Memorial Swimming Centre

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This War Memorial Swimming Centre was opened on 11th March 1967 by the Hon. P. H. Morton M.L.A. Minister for Local Government & Highways.

Shire President B.A. Mullane. 

Councillors: F. D. C. Caterson, C. F. Ellerman, K. J. Ford, E. Horwood, H. Lowe, C. G. McLaughlin, G. E. R. Mobbs, W. C. D. Moore, H. F. West, A. H. Whaling. 

Shire Engineer W. B. Mattick. Shire Clerk D. J. B. Mercer. Shire Health Surveyor C. H. Seddon.

Veterans listed on this memorial

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Address
Formerly: 44 Mileham Avenue
Baulkham Hills NSW 2153
Local Government Area
The Hills Shire
Setting
Garden/park
Location status
Lost/destroyed
Memorial type
Swimming pool/swimming centre
Recorded by
Ronald L McIntosh
Year of construction
1967
Dedication date
11 March 1967
Conflict/s
All conflicts