The St. Paul’s College Alumni Association Tse Yu Chuen Swimming Pool was another addition to the College buildings after the relocation in 1950. Construction began in 1978 and the pool was officially opened on 8^th November 1979. The site was previously occupied by Ho Tung Garden, as part of the original St. John’s Hall site. It was a popular recreational ground for students. It is worth noting that this was also the very same garden where the ashes of former principal Col. E. G. Stewart were scattered!

The impetus behind the construction of the pool was to encourage our students to learn how to swim and enjoy swimming as well as to improve the results of the College’s swimming team. Before the pool had been built, the team had to travel to the Kennedy Town Swimming Pool in order to practice. This was both time-consuming and not ideal, since the swimming pool was a public pool and quite far away. The College therefore decided to raise funds for a swimming pool. Parents and alumni contributed to the funding of the pool, with the Alumni Association contributing the most to the project. The swimming pool was named in honour of Mr Tse Yu Chuen (class of 1916), former Chairman of the Alumni Association, and Chairman of the Stewart Building Fund Raising Committee, once known as the ‘Rice King’ (米王) in post-war Hong Kong when he was in charge of rice rationing.

Nowadays, aside from providing the College’s swimming and aquatics teams with a convenient training facility, the swimming pool is also a regular fixture of the College’s P.E. lessons in swimming season, allowing our students to experience the joys of swimming and water sports.