When Bryan Brown was growing up in Panania in southwest Sydney in the 1950s and early 1960s, there were three hubs of social life outside school: the picture theatre; the church; the municipal baths. The baths at nearby Bankstown had one of Sydney’s first Olympic-size chlorine pools when they opened in 1933. Twenty-five years later, when young Bryan was living in the area, the pool was still going strong, and from the ages of 11 to 15 that was where he wanted to be.
It'd be nice if GuardianAus did a feature on public swimming pools (or lack thereof, particularly kid-friendly pools) currently in suburban, rural & regional 🇦🇺. Having plentiful public swimming pools is much better than many private ones or people travelling hours to the beach.
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