1950s

Tomorrow we have the Gergaynia Beckett Trophy race – a 50m freestyle handicap for all girls. The boys can battle it out for the Spit Digger’s Cup. Gergaynia captained the Australian Ladies’…

My father’s first year at Balmoral Infants’ School, 1957. Dad is four from the left in the third row. “We were thrown in from the timber catwalk at Balmoral Baths…