Scout Camp open air swimming pool

HER Number

16849

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Scout Camp open air swimming pool

Place

Gosforth

Map Sheet

NZ27SE

Class

Recreational

Site Type: Broad

Swimming Pool

Site Type: Specific

Outdoor Swimming Pool

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966

Form of Evidence

Destroyed Monument

Description

This private pool was built beside Gosforth Racecourse in 1933 as part of a Scout Camp. It was described as a 'perfect paradise for boys'. Infilled in the 1970s.

Easting

426150

Northing

570560

Grid Reference

NZ426150570560

Sources

Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 52, 188