1930s
Randwick Council announced plans to build an Olympic swimming pool and a sea wall using gangs of unemployed labour. Attempts were made to construct a breakwater across the mouth of the bay. The project plans were modified after winter storms washed away most of this sea wall, leaving behind a protective rocky reef now visible only at low tide.

1953
The Clovelly Winter Swimming Club was founded by Clovelly surf club members looking for a way to keep active in the winter months. They used Clovelly Bay as their swimming pool.

1962
As acknowledged by a plaque at the pool, Geoff James of the Clovelly surf club proposed the building of a concrete swimming pool. One of the most compelling arguments for the creation of this pool was that its presence meant Randwick Council needed less concrete for the promenade

1991
Residents claimed the Council was neglecting the basic requirements of the pool and its many users. About 150 Clovelly residents petitioned Randwick City Council about the Clovelly Beach Pool, which had stood empty for five weeks because the pump was not operating. They wanted the pool normally used for swimming lessons each Saturday and for events staged by the Clovelly Amateur Swimming Club to be thoroughly cleaned, a new pump installed and to receive regular maintenance and written reports about the pool from Council.

1994
The National Trust classified this 25-metre by 6-metre pool and listed it on its heritage register.

2000
As part of its State of the Environment (SOE) report, Randwick City Council reported on water monitoring in the Clovelly rock pool.

2001
Randwick City Council refurbished the baths.

2002
Randwick Council named the pool after Geoff James, past president and life member of the Clovelly surf club.
The Clovelly Eskimos winter swimming club had about 125 members, most of whom were in their forties or older.

2003
Real estate agents say the charms of the swimming baths and snorkelling round the bay helps to attract families with children to Clovelly. Images of the swimming pool's marked lanes appear in the real estate advertisements for units at Clovelly Beach.

1884
There were only two houses in this area north of Coogee

Early 1900s
Clovelly was still known as Little Coogee until around 1914.
The narrow entrance to the small beach set back about 300 metres from a natural breakwater was previously edged, both to the north and south, by rock platforms which extended from the beach out to the headlands. The 'almost sharkproof' Clovelly Bay was a popular site for mixed bathing, even though the Bay's rocky shores made bathing hazardous.

1918
As one of Sydney's 'new suburbs', Clovelly contributed to major population growth in the municipality of Randwick.

1922
The Clovelly Surf Lifesaving Club was built. As the entrance to Clovelly Bay could become dangerous in high seas, the Clovelly Surf Life Saving Club was seen as performing an important service for people who got into difficulties on what seemed a safe beach.

1929
Randwick Council won a 2,500 pound grant from the NSW Government to build a breakwater and the promenades as a 'measure of relieving unemployment'.

1938
Work around the Bay ceased, having created a concrete promenade only on the Bay's southern side and leaving the bay ruined, according to many locals.

World War II
Amid fears that Japanese forces would invade Australia, steel tank traps were placed across the Clovelly Beach and promenade and its concrete stairways were removed. Barbed wire ran across the beach and rocks. Soldiers camped on the beach and used the club house, which was designated as a rest station in case of air raids.

2002
The NSW EPA's water monitoring program  rated Clovelly rated as one of the dirtiest beaches.

After the killing in January of a large well-known and much-loved adult groper, the NSW government banned taking fish from the sea at Clovelly and from neighbouring Gordon's Bay. The groper is the official state fish of NSW. In March, the NSW government created an aquatic reserve from Bronte to Coogee. Within this protection zone, which extends to 100 metres offshore, recreational fishing is allowed but there are bans on taking a whole range of intertidal invertebrates such as oysters, mussels, crabs and pipis.

2005
Both sides of Coogee Bay were concreted.
 

Late twentieth-century ocean baths sited in Sydney's only concreted beach. Demonstrates the desire for measured formalised baths for training and competition in a late twentieth-century coastal community with access to one of the calmest beaches in NSW. Named in honour of the person who suggested its creation.

Assessed significance: Local.
Current heritage status: The Clovelly Bay Enclosure including the baths was listed as having local heritage significance in Randwick Council's 1998 Local Environmental Plan.