26 July 1934 The newly opened Empire Pool includes a wave machine, sun bathing terraces and clean, luminous water
Fleet Street, Wednesday
The new Empire Pool and Sports Arena at Wembley was formally opened to-day by the Duke of Gloucester, a fitting climax to a remarkable achievement.
Nothing comparable with this swimming pool has been seen in England before. It is more like sea than a pool, and the architect has encouraged this illusion by sloping the floor of the bath right up to the surface of the water at the shallow end, so that one walks in as though from a shelving beach. At the other end of the pool, 200 feet away, the water is 16½ feet deep, so that the clumsiest diver from the 10-metre board can come to no harm. In the wall of the bath under the diving stage far below the surface are concealed four great pistons which, when set moving, make artificial waves of any height up to six feet from trough to crest. At night coloured lights can be turned on to illuminate the water from below.
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