Newton Park, Port Elizabeth
It replaced the older St George's Park pool as the venue for local swimming galas, and last used for the SA Championships in 1954. The diving pool, and a partial 3m board, can be seen on the right. The prevailing southwesterly winds blew from the right, creating waves in the shallow end! The starting blocks shown here are in the deep end.
The Rhodesian swimming team members poolside at the 1964 SA Aquatic championships, held at the Newton Park municipal swimming and diving pools in Port Elizabeth.
In 2008, the Newton Park venue was upgraded to an indoor pool and is typically the venue for the national swimming championships, as it is the only suitable indoor swimming pool in the country.
The brief required that the architects convert the existing 1950s-era Newton Park Pool from an open-air unheated pool to an indoor heated pool meeting international standards. Budgetary constraints dictated the retention of the existing concrete grandstand, which had to be incorporated within a new clear-spanning structure without imposing additional loads on existing structures or impeding sightlines to the pool.
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