The club actually started in about 1882 as “The Brighouse & Rastrick Amateur Swimming Club” and changed the name at the AGM in 1895 to Brighouse Amateur Swimming Club.
The club are thought to have used a millpond until the Ramsden’s Baths was opened in 1890, this was located on the left side of Bramston Street opposite Hillside Garage, “Bath Place” bears proof to its existence.
Water for the pool was obtained from water drained from the hillside above.
When a Corporation Tip was built higher up the valley it polluted the water and the Baths had to close in 1903.
The Corporation Baths in Millroyd Street Brighouse were opened in 1913 and the swimming club used the pool there until it closed in 2006 due to a problem with the roof.
Even though the Club had no ‘home pool’ it continued with lessons by using other pools in the surrounding area until the new pool was opened in October 2010 at Bradford Road, Brighouse.
