Last weekend I was told a great story. Apparently there once was a three-lane swimming pool on Rosemont Avenue, Pembroke that Olympians trained in."It's a true story," claimed the very reputable Reverend Calvin Stone. "I was told it was there and if you look closely at the area it was allegedly supposed to be in, you can still make out the pool infrastructure."Look at where Rev Stone is standing in the photo and you can imagine the grassy knoll he is on top of once housed a pool. Why there is even evidence of starting blocks at one end."If you look over here," he guided me, "you can see the fresh water well that fed the pool and gave it the coolness and clarity of water."I looked...yep, it's there alright. We took the lid off and peered down the well. About 30m down there was spring water coming from an underground oasis."There's no doubt in my mind that a pool was once here and the significant thing is, this pool was about 50 yards long," he assured.Wow. Bermuda once boasted a 50-yard pool? And Olympians trained in it. In all of the Caribbean, until a few years back, there had not been a man-made 50-yard or 50-metre pool. If this legendary find is inaccurate, Bermuda does not and never has had a pool longer than 25 metres.That will change soon when the swimming centre at the National Stadium is completed in five months as it will include a 50m pool, eight lanes wide and brimming with hope and expectation. But it is costing $19 million to make. To claim that a long pool actually existed in Bermuda 75 years ago is stuff of legend."It was here," stood the good Reverend.I asked around.Jeff Conyers is a keen triathlete to this day and has swum everywhere possible here.At a few ticks over 60 years of age, his memory was called on."No, I can safely say I have never known of a pool in that location. That's not to say it didn't exist but I have never heard of it and I can remember as a child going from town to St George’s to have a swim during school. So if there had been one there, I would have known."The alleged pool was in the back of what is now the Wesley Methodist Church manse, situated on 18 Rosemont Avenue.Victor Ruberry, a former Olympian who is pushing 50 years of age said, "No, it does not ring a bell at all to me."Ok, plot thickens.I phoned legendary former swim coach Gareth Davies. "I can remember pools at the Hamiltonian Club and of course Castle Harbour and wait...no there was once one at the Belmont Club too...but no, not at 18 Rosemount Ave. That's a new one on me.”Disappointed, I phoned Dot Campbell, a 90-year-old who still to this day attends Wesley Methodist Church."No, sorry I can’t help you at all as I can’t recall ever seeing a pool at the Minister's manse," she said.Desperate, I turned to Government’s Archives Department.A chap called Andrew Baylay answered and promised to go through the archives. Which he did."The Americans visited Bermuda in 1941 and 1962 and again in 1973 to take aerial photos of every inch of the Island," said Andrew. "If there was something there, those old photos will reveal it."I waited with great anticipation and hope. As did Rev Stone.Said Andrew: "The 1941 pics are not totally clear and were taken from maybe 15,000 ft in the sky. So it is hard to make stuff out, but I would say there does not look like there was a pool there then on that property, but again I can't be sure. The '62 and '73 photos, however, are a lot clearer, and.....goodness, well there you go. It does appear that there is a pool on the Southwest corner of the house. And a large pool at that. As to when it was filled in and who was living there at the time of these photos, the Archives Department has less records the closer to present you get. It is possible the Planning Department may know, but I am afraid there is no quick answer for those questions. But...there was a pool there for certain."Rev Stone breathed a sigh of relief and we set out to find out why on God's green earth anyone would fill in such an historic piece of Bermuda.The Wesley Methodist Church purchased the homestead about 75 years ago from a dentist. Apparently the ministers all enjoyed the pool until one, whose name we can’t find as yet, came to live there. This was in the mid-70s and he had three little kids. It seems he feared for them around the pool, so had it filled in. Just like that history, through ignorance, was buried.Over the years Wesley's rather large property was sub-divided and sold off leaving just 15 metres of the original pool left. The remainder and the key to the mystery of how long it was, is now under a set of very modern condos that sit next door to the manse.Mystery solved...well, to a degree.