The sun was shining, pool was crystal clear and the Canberra Amateur Swimming Club champions board was back in its rightful place.

All was right with the world on Friday as pool season was declared officially open.

And Manuka Pool was marking its 95 season, having first opened its doors on January 26, 1931.

The heritage-listed pool, with its art deco facade, sun-bathing alcoves and old-fashioned bathrooms, welcomes around 45,000 people each summer.

But until this year, an important piece of the pool's history was missing - the champions board, which went missing in the mid-1950s, when the Canberra Amateur Swimming Club moved from Manuka to Civic Pool (and later to Gungahlin in 2014).

The 70-year-old mystery was solved, incredibly, last year when a former Canberran Mandy Crampton, fo

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