Dalby Olympic Swimming Pool the Redcliffe Bathing Pavilions Group, designed and constructed in the 1930s. Excavation work commenced on 1 July 1936 and the first patrons were admitted late in October of that year, with 1550 people using the pool in the first weekend. The complex was completed at a cost of and was officially opened on 14 November 1936 by Frank Cooper, MLA, Minister for Public Instruction, before a crowd of approximately 2,000 people. Commending the Dalby Town Council on its initiative, Cooper commented that there was no town twice or even 10 times the size of Dalby that had a swimming pool
The Swimming-Pool Library of pornography but an archive recording of Ronald Firbank in old age. The novel closes. "The Swimming Pool Library" won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1988, and the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1989. In 1988, Edmund White called it, "surely the best book about gay life yet written by an English author." The Swimming-Pool Library The Swimming-Pool Library is a 1988 novel by Alan Hollinghurst. In 1983 London, the privileged, gay, and sexually irresistible 25-year-old protagonist Will saves the life of an elderly aristocrat having a heart-attack in a public lavatory.