Swimming pool named after drowned Prime Minister. January 5, 2015 / Mel_inHelsinki. Venue: Harold Holt Swim Centre, Glen Iris **Sunday morning sessions held at Prahran Pool for 1st term 2020* Sunday morning** 7.00 - 8.30 am and 8.30 - 10.00 am Tuesday morning 9.15 - 10.45 am Tuesday evening 7.00 - 8.30 pm Thursday morning 9.15 - 10.45 am Thursday evening 7.00 - 8.30 pm Saturday morning 7:00 - 8:30 am Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre was also claimed to be the first metric plan design in Australia. In December 1967, a man named Harold Holt went for a swim in rough seas off the coast of Australia. Norman Day railed in today's paper against proposed alterations to the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool by Peddle Thorpe architects, accusing it of gimmickry and arrogance. With close to 500,000 visitors a year, the Harold Holt Swim Centre in Glen Iris is a highly valued community facility. In good Australia humour the Glen Iris Swimming bath was renamed the Harold Holt memorial Pool on this day this day in 1969 by Prime Minister John Gorton. The Harold Holt Swim Centre originally consisted of two indoor pools and, outdoors, an Olympic-sized pool, diving pool with dive tower, wading pool and changing rooms.

The Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre in Malvern has been added to Victoria’s Heritage Register as a prime example of Brutalism.

Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images The reality was rather more mundane and far less thrilling. "The very qualities that make the Harold Holt pool a significant building are to be subsumed into a comfortable and relaxed architecture of mediocrity."

Harold Holt was the 17th Prime Minister of Australia and was believed drowned at Cheviot Beach, near Portsea in 1967.

But in a touch which is somehow quintessentially Aussie, there is also a Harold Holt Memorial public swimming pool in a Melbourne suburb, which, apparently, is a … Harold Holt on the beach with his daughters-in-law, circa 1966. At the Local level, the site is important for providing aquatic recreation for He was never seen again. Socially, the place is significant at the National level, as the first - and probably most well known - memorial to the late Prime Minister, Harold Holt. This was like a torpedo shape with an angled fin. The Harold Holt Memorial Swim Centre was constructed in the 1960s and is one of the best examples of brutalist architecture in Melbourne. The dive tower and pool at ‘Harold Holt’ was closed to the public in 2003 and we’re regularly asked when, or if, it can be reopened. (The article is not yet online). Nestled within the leafy streets of Glen Iris, Harold Holt (strangely named after our ill-fated Prime Minister) is a suburban haven for southside fitness junkie 30 CAL MINE SWEEPER MEKONG 1965-1966 - A cable was towed and at the end was a 'paravane'. We’re proposing to bring diving back to the Harold Holt Swim Centre. The centre has a variety of indoor and outdoor swimming areas, but one area to the south of the main outdoor pool is the iconic three storey diving tower, which has been closed since 2003.

Finland’s oldest public pool – swimsuits optional. Idea was any electric cable where a floating bomb was, would be picked up by the paravane and a wake of white foam showed where the bomb was. Built in 1967, the complex is described by the Heritage Council as “amongst the most notable, expressive, earliest and intact examples of the concrete Brutalist movement that emerged in Victoria in the late-1960’s”.