Tepid Baths

Tepid Baths

The Tepid Baths are historical indoor public pools in Auckland, New Zealand. Built in 1914 on the previous site of a small drydock, [" [http://www.rnzncomms.net.nz/navy/documents/history/navalrepairfacilities.html Development of naval repair facilities at Auckland, New Zealand 1841-1962] " - Bell, J.A.; AMRINA Deputy Constructive Manager HMNZ Dockyard] the Tepid Baths was originally leased from the Auckland Harbour Board, and contain two separate pools, a "male" (25 m, 6 lanes) and "female" (18 m, 4 lane). The "male" pool was the largest pool in New Zealand at that time. The pools were heated via hot water from the nearby tramways power plant, and the system was considered an engineering masterpiece of the time. [http://www.nzymca.com/tepidbaths/index.php?branch_id=10 Welcome to Tepid Baths] (from the YMCA Auckland website)]

The pools were not only extensively used for both recreative and competitive swimming, but also for some other uses - in one event, a pentecostal minister baptised a hundred new faithful in the pools (in about 1931). [ [http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=4D2 Dallimore, Arthur Henry] (database entry in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography)]

In 1974, the salt water pools (previously fed from the Waitemata Harbour) were transformed into fresh water pools. The facility was refurbished in 1986 and again after the YMCA received the management lease in 1997 from Auckland City Council. Renovations include new sauna and steam room, and a Gym on the upper level (YMCA club members only). Nowadays, a large part of the Tepid Baths' customers are people working in the Auckland CBD who swim here before or after work. [ [http://0-www.aucklandcity.govt.nz.www.elgar.govt.nz/council/documents/swimmingpool/appx1.asp Swimming pool strategy] (from the Auckland City Council website)]

Two sports champions were Custodians at the Tepid Baths, swimmer Malcolm Champion (who frequently swam across the harbour to his North Shore home) and runner Billy Savidan [ "New Zealand Sporting Legends: 27 Pre-War Sporting Heroes" by Neville McMillan (1993, Moa Beckett, Auckland) ISBN 1-96958-013-1 ] .

References

External links

* [http://www.nzymca.com/tepidbaths/index.php?branch_id=10 Tepid Baths] (from the YMCA website)


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