Walcha History: Going with the flow - learning to swim in the river

By Bob Walsh
Updated December 11 2018 - 12:07pm, first published 10:51am
Life lessons: Summer Swimming School at Willowdene, Yarrowitch, in the 1950s – Photo courtesy of Heather Cain.
Life lessons: Summer Swimming School at Willowdene, Yarrowitch, in the 1950s – Photo courtesy of Heather Cain.

The Walcha News of February 18, 1954, reads in part: “Swimming lessons were given in the Tia River from January 26 to 30 inclusive by Mr & Mrs K. McGregor of Tamworth under the supervision of the Physical Fitness Officer, Mr G. Walker, also of Tamworth. Children five years old and up from Brackendale, Tia, Yarrowitch and Walcha took part with an average daily attendance of 63.”

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