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The First Ipoh Swimming Club
Swimming was a popular recreation much sought after by Europeans working in the tropics, but swimming clubs were non existant around land-locked Ipoh in the 1920s and before.
However, the local expatriates were undaunted and following the age-old tradition they formed a club. Known as the Ipoh Swimming Club, for whites only of course, they adopted an unused mining pool in the Ampang/Kramat Pulai area and as the photograph shows, soon had club facilities (certainly including a bar) readily available. Of course, as one can see from the picture, ladies swimming costumes were rather more modest than those on the average beach in the 21st century!
In 1932 the Club moved to new premises, its present site, off Gopeng Road Ipoh.
To learn more about the new premises of the swimming club, click here.
For the Royal Ipoh Club’s history, click here