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I still swim daily in the pool I learned to swim in 65 years ago. Your story about the lost pools of Hobart makes me much more grateful for this priceless continuity in my life. Thanks for making Tasmanian history so watchable and interesting.

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Thanks Angus, such fond memories of the Glenorchy pool, people my age would remember climbing on the rocket ship and I think back now how dangerous that thing was. My sister almost drowned at that pool so we weren't allowed to go as often but I made up for it as a teenager lol.

Hi Angus. The Top of the World is still in operation! Albeit in a very different form… A friend of mine bought the property after the pool had closed and build a pretty grand home there over the top of the pool. The pool itself was left in place but divided in half lengthways to become a lap pool at the front of the home. The other half was bricked up, kept separate and drained so it now holds plant and equipment for the house. The pool as accessed via steps directly into it from the ‘front doors’. The home frontage is all glass and gets the sun all day so the reflected sunshine from the water makes this one of warmest naturally heated homes in Hobart. It gets pretty hot in summer! Glad to see the pool itself isn’t necessarily ‘lost’!

The coin has dropped for me for why your presentations have so much clout. The very intentional silences with only the environmental noises between speaking to camera is perfect. In most instances, elevator music to fill in the spaces would detract massively. The current presentation format is perfect.

Kids these days don't know the horror of having to do lean to swim at the Plaister pool during winter

My family has great memories of swimming at the house in Kingston with our family friends who used to own it. I have sent them a link to have a look. Thank you for a great history video.

Thanks again Angus. Keep your stories of Hobart coming

Angus. Could please do a series about historic homes around Tasmania and the stories behind them .. love your videos

You should do a video on Hobart's nightlife. Like the night club (Regis?) that used to be at the base of the (Wrestpoint/Sandy Bay) Casino.

I remember the tepid baths and Glenorchy pool well. The Glenorchy pool had the old steel rocket. Good times. Thank you.

It was such treat to go to the Burnie pool…. Oh my dear and learn to swim was horrific ….

I so love the little nuggets of wisdom you sprinkle into your videos. Nice work!

Brings back memories Angus......got up to come serious mischief under that grandstand at the Glenorchy Pool.....those memories are best left to lie dormant

Another great video. Where is the abandoned house that will soon make way for a supermarket?

Gosh. Great videos! Love Hobart and its history

I thought from the thumbnail that it was that place in Kingston. Great vid Angus.

The grand Angus! The bloke is a living legend. The world is a better place with Geezas like you Angus.

I remember swimming in that pool at kingston on a few New Years Eves as a kid. Sad to see really considering I know how well they kept the property.

thanks fo this piece of urban history. iwthout this it would most likely be lost forever.

Great video thanks Angus (and dog). I love watching these videos, keep them coming please!

Loved the mini boats !

Look at that grand stand

Oh that slide when it was windy. With the stairs packed with people once you were in the line the only way down was up. But I have always liked the New Norfolk pool better, less people and more family atmosphere.

I never took the jump from the top tower at the olympic but the kids that did were so cool. Thanks Angus

Loving the videos Angus! Here in Victoria we lost our old pool in the floods last year, I think council are doing everything possible to avoid replacing it 😢

Another awesome short docu! I love your work

I remember school swimming lessons at the Glenorchy pool. It was so cold I had to defy the teacher and just get out, It was horrible.

I'll have to check that spot out near Huntingfield before it gets turned into the fourth bloody shopping centre in the general vicinity.

Never thought a bunch of old pools would give me the feels.

Got my swimming certificates in that Glenorchy pool in the 70s. Bloody cold but did me no harm and still have the certificates. Good work Angus

I had forgotten the bubble!

I love your videos! I eagerly await the next submission. This one showed me of a few pools I didn't know existed. I know of one pool on the corner of Molle and Collins that wasn't mentioned.

RIP glenorchy pool... great video like usual mate...

SAVE THE GLENORCHY POOL love all your content @angus

Thanks, Angus, pools are a pain in the bum to maintain. I’m struggling to keep a 1000 litre spa going! Our local council is discussing selling off the main fresh water pool as it’s expensive to maintain. Your drone pics are a distinct contrast to Googles images of Glenorchy pool!

Another is the pool at Kingston Primary School. Built about ~1986 from memory but from Google images looks to have gone sometime prior to 2005 as by that point a building extension occupies roughly half the former pool area and the rest is clearly no longer a pool at that point. Only thing that remains of it from what's visible are the two sheds used as changerooms. They were just sheds, garden sheds basically, not even a light inside.

another amazing video! thank you Angus!

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I learned to swim at the Tepid Baths, as a teen went to the Domain pool. Saw Dawn Frazer swim there as well. Clarence High my school swam in the beach area down the road. These days in NZ I do Aqua-aerobics 4 mornings a week. Love watching your videos Angus reminding me of my home town.

Pool with a retractable roof, best of both worlds

As a kid, I learnt to swim at the Wrest Point saltwater pool, Nunky Aires ?? was the swimming teacher. Later on I have memories of swimming not only at the Tepid Baths, also did my diving course there, and of course also going to the Hobart Olympic Pool and a few times to the Glenorchy Pool. There are a few other indoor pools in Hobart including the Friends School one which is open to the public, the Collegiate School pool and the little one off NewTown Rd across the road/close to the Jackman and McRoss cafe.

True story re: Hobart's old Olympic Pool. Quite a lot of the rubble from when it was destroyed ended up being trucked up to the TCA Ground where it was used to create the outer banking where the electronic scoreboard is situated now.

Yet another fascinating video! Your presentations are so very dear to me and bring back many memories, but I suspect my plans to return there are growing more and more distant. Even though I grew up in Hobart, a lot of those pools, some now just swamps or gone were new to me. As a matter of interest; how did you accomplish the aerial vision?

What! Since when? I remember this place it was awesome used to go there for school swimming competitions.

I saw the Glenorchy Pool and pointed out the waterslide to my wife as we were going to the adjacent transport museum. Didn’t realise it had been shut permanently. Also saw a grass roots Aussie Rules match being played at KGV Oval. Something we don’t see too often on the Mid North Coast of NSW where I’m from where it’s NRL all the way.

had all my school swimming carnivals at the glenorchy pool. a pieces of time that will be lost to history.

Love your videos and I don't even live in Tassy.

Nice shot of the liner Oriana visiting town at 3:52. The ships corn (yellow) hull colour dates the photo between 1960 and 1966.

Great video Angus! I don’t know why but that abandoned house in kingo makes me so sad. I wonder why it was abandoned

A possibility for a future video could be the former ice skating rink on the mountain, or the stories behind the abandoned hotel near the top of west hobart

Hi Angus, very interesting & sad about the Glenorchy pool. My daughter is so disappoimted about the closure, as she loved going to the waterslide. Where is the "Kings Head" pub & pool location, I had never heard of it?!

Hey Angus, not sure if you'll see this or not but I'm very new to your channel, my friend has watched a fair bit of you, I'm just wondering how you know so much of this stuff, did you study in uni or are you constantly just reading and researching? Would love to know. Cheers.

Your joking i was swimming in there last year 😭 bro wtf i didn’t know it closed bro i had a school event there literally last year thats crazy

In the case of Hobart, if given a choice I'd definitely take function over form when it comes to pool that can be used all year long. What's the expected life span of a community pool? DKHAC has good bones in my uninformed opinion, and likely needs updates to support views of public pool as community hub (akin to Libraries) and some more family activation with updated family change rooms etc.

I do hope that Glenorchy gets indoor swimming facilities.

Many a family Christmas was had in the pool yard of that family home. Sad to see the state it is in today.

I learned to swim at wrest point

Cool 🏊

Bring back the bumper boats!!!

I never really understood pools in Tassie. Coming from Qld and then WA it just didn't make any sense. I was taken aback a couple of days ago, when up in Poatina, I came across an outdoor pool . . . .now that really messed with my head.

I swam at the old Tepid Baths on many occasions

We all need to band together and fight for this War Memorial facility that was built by the people of Glenorchy 30th November 1963. 60 year birthday today. Families, RSL, Country Womens Assoc, Schools and swimming clubs as well as 70 organisations come together as civic minded citizens to raise funds, provided labour to build our pool. Please attend Glenorchy Council Annual General meeting Monday night 4th Dec 23 to vote on public motions to Save Glenorchy War Memorial Pool.

Are you aware of the Bellerive Baths? Not sure when they closed but they were operating at the start of World War 1.

They left it under staffed and wouldn't let many people in , my grand kids were turned away twice

Inflated the pool pony in preparation for this! 😅😅😅

Bring em back I say

Where do you get these old photos? My brothers are two of the boys at the glenorchy pool. And two cousins.

You forget that Sorell has a new covered pool

As you say Build it and they shall come Wrong!!

I love the shirt but can I get it in black, artwork on the back, and a mini version of the art on the left chest? 😅😅😅

Is this gonna cover the Glenorchy pool shut down? Where is the pool the thumbnail?

New norfolk pool is next ong its so gross there Also theres a closed pool in the asylum area in new norfolk i was gonna sneak in there but i havent cuz it has asbestos in

entropy

and they call that progress

Where is there a new Supermarket going to go??

Who would have thought the glenorchy pool would have ended up like that. Politicians have no respect for social history to allow such decline. Is nothing sacred anymore?

The new housing estates and apartments built in Hobart and the surrounding suburbs look cheap and somewhat tasteless. It's a shame to see what's happened to some of these baths and I have fond memories as a kid in the 90's of the 'Bubble'.

I've been at that place with the pool a few times on my mountain bike I'm guessing ur at Kingston and it was liveable maybe 5 months ago it's sad to see something like that go to waste people have got all the copper out of it now and destroyed everything and same as the other house I'm guessing they are government owned we went there one day to find a box of chocolates left to the old owner wtf grr makes me wild

Hello Angus where is the pool in around 5:00 to 7:00 minutes it would be much appreciated

Doesnt even talk about who designed or built the glenorchy pool

hobart mentioned????

I thought this might have gone into more detail; like mentioning that the Clarence bubble was suppose to be a temporary structure, taken down in the warmer months, but was left up for years. Or little endeavours, like the one off chapel street in Glenorchy, on the Humphreys Rivulet (At least I guess it was a swimming pool )

Council should be ashamed