Swimming hole

In Europe, as the nineteenth century dawned, a new era of contemporary artists were rediscovering the appeal of the swimming hole.

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas de Quincey spent much time bathing in the mountain pools of the Lake District.

The fashionable tours of Provence or Tuscany were replaced by trips to the valleys of Wales, and the dales of the UK's Cumbria and Yorkshire, as Turner and Constable painted a prodigious flow of falls, tarns and ponds.

In the first half of the 20th century there were several swimming clubs along the Yarra River in Melbourne,[2] such as at Deep Rock, for example.

The swimming clubs along the Yarra River closed in response to this change in preferences.