Access to toilet/change facilities Actively maintained Disabled Access

Men Women Children

Current Use: Ocean baths.
Condition: Good, minimalist pool, no facilities.

1940s
These South Coogee rock pools were popular with local children.

1965
A Randwick Apex Club project enlarged the site's main natural pool.

1965 to the early 1980s
Local residents who kept the pool clean found that the seaweed they took out was popular with rock fishers using this well-known spot for catching blackfish.

1945
South Coogee Public School opened in 1945 in the building now used as the South Coogee Learning Centre.

1950s & 1960s
South Coogee was a low-density residential area with pockets of public housing flats. Students of the South Coogee Public School were housed in the Endeavour Migrant Hostel and the Bundock Street Navy Stores until new school buildings were created.

1970s
Demise of the Endeavour Migrant Hostel.

1990s
Townhouse developments attracted families to the South Coogee area boosting the enrolment at the South Coogee Public School. The South Coogee population grew by 14.4% from 1991 to 1996 and then began to decline.

2001
South Coogee had a population of around 5,000.

To be added.

Tiny ocean baths, not of the ring-of-rocks type. A 1965 Randwick Apex Club project enlarged the site's natural pool. The Eastern suburbs walking track brings visitors past this pool.

Assessed significance: Local.
Current heritage status: Not yet given heritage status.
 

Related Topics Fishing & fishtraps Seaweed Working bees & voluntary labour

Studies& References To be added.