Crawley Baths

{{Short description|Former swimming facility in Perth, Western Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|right|Crawley Baths {{circa|1920–1929}} '''Crawley Baths''' was a public swimming facility, in Matilda Bay, near Crawley, Western Australia along Mounts Bay Road. The timber structure was opened on 7 February 1914.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/swan_river/living_with_the_land/bathing|title=Bathing|work=State Library of Western Australia - Swan River Stories|access-date=30 May 2012}}</ref> The opening ceremony was conducted by Premier John Scaddan and included a swimming carnival and life saving displays.<ref name=copda>{{cite web|url=http://portal.environment.wa.gov.au/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/ADMIN_SRT_PLANNING/2006/docs/DevelopmentProposal.PDF|title=Crawley Baths Art project Development proposal|work=City of Perth|date=2 September 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706123506/http://portal.environment.wa.gov.au/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/ADMIN_SRT_PLANNING/2006/docs/DevelopmentProposal.PDF|archive-date=6 July 2011}}</ref>

The baths were the largest enclosed body of water in the southern hemisphere and were an important recreational facility in Perth for fifty years.<ref name=copda/> They were demolished in 1964 after Beatty Park was built for the 1962 Commonwealth Games.

A bronze statue ''Eliza'' commemorates the baths and stands in the river near its former location.

==See also== *Perth City Baths

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58763317 ''Sunday Times'' February 1936] (photo of children's swimming classes at Crawley Baths)

Category:Sports venues in Perth, Western Australia Category:Swimming venues in Western Australia Category:History of Perth, Western Australia Category:Swan River (Western Australia) Category:Crawley, Western Australia Category:Bathing in Australia Category:Defunct swimming venues Category:Defunct sports venues in Australia