From today back to White Horse Point
The latest from the pool comes first. Then scroll back through more than 140 years of Balmain water polo: our Olympians, the black and gold, and aquatic polo in the Corporation Baths. 91 photos on the way, and every photo we have under each year below.
- Years
- 25
- Eras
- 7
- Span
- 2025 back to 1880
Paris and beyond
Sienna Hearn and Genevieve Longman won silver at Paris 2024, with Taryn Woods coaching and Bronwyn Smith managing.
The national league
Men's and women's teams in the national league, with junior teams from under 12s and senior grades behind them.
Gold at home
Bronwyn Mayer and Taryn Woods won gold with Australia's women at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
The women's game
Playing as Birchgrove Ladies, our women won the first NSW Ladies competition in 1964 and joined Balmain in 1965/66.
The first Olympians
Ben Dalley and Eric Johnston played in Australia's first Olympic water polo team, London 1948. A Balmain player has been in every team since.
Black and gold
On 30 September 1910 the colours changed from red and white: black for Blackwattle Bay, gold for the wattle on its foreshore.
Aquatic polo at White Horse Point
Twelve a side at the Corporation Baths, the referee on the diving board, goals scored into a lifebuoy. Balmain won its first NSW title in 1895/96.
Open a year
The timeline shows a selection. Each year holds every photo we have from it, grouped by the albums the club posted at the time.
2025
2024
2023
2022
2020
2019
2016
2015
2014
2012
2011
2007
2006
2005
2003
2002
1971
1964
1960
1948
1940
1930s
1906
1888
1880Have a photo from the club's history?
Team photos, carnival days, finals, trophies, old programmes and newspaper cuttings all help. Email a scan or the original file to info@balmainwaterpolo.com.au with the year, where it was taken, who is in it if you know, and who took it, so we can credit them.
We only publish group photos of junior players, and never with their names. If you are in a photo here and want it taken down, email us and we will remove it.
The club's own collection and galleries, and public collections where the photo is out of copyright or openly licensed. Each photo carries its credit and a link to the original where there is one.
Photos from newspapers, photographers and other accounts appear only with the owner's permission. Our Olympians and Hall of Fame pages tell more of the story.