Gunnedah Pool - Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia.

The large, impressive, and well-equipped, Gunnedah Pool - Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia.

Gunnedah did not have a swimming pool located in the town, until a Kytherian drowning tragedy, involving the Vernardos family.

The drowning involved a nephew of Peter Venardos, that occurred during a picnic on the Namoii River. The event was instrumental in mobilising the town to provide Gunnedah with swimming pool depicted above.

Many individuals and businesses in the town provided both equipment and labour for the project, free of charge, to ensure that all children in the town had a safe place in which to swim, and to provide a facility for swimming lessons within the town. A very important community resource, derived from a Kytherian tragedy.

See other entries for Peter Venardos, including, Peter Venardos - aged 82, in his lounge room, Gunnedah, NSW, Australia, April, 2004.

More precise information as to how the pool was built would be of great interest.