Tiles, curves and schoolgirls and the last days of Parramatta Pool
Since I visited Parramatta War Memorial Pool last week and it closed forever on 31 March, I have been thinking about what was unique and special about this almost 58-year-old place. First of all it was the tiles – beautiful, late 1950s, diamond-shaped ceramic tiles in the original wading pool. Small spearmint and purple-grey squares in[…]
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With Parramatta Pool, the problem seemed to be that it was on crown land owned by the State Government so…