With thanks to Glen Ward for digging up this great picture / postcard:
I’m guessing the picture was taken in the 1950s?
Memories and history of a small country town
With thanks to Glen Ward for digging up this great picture / postcard:
I’m guessing the picture was taken in the 1950s?
Thank you so much Glen Ward. I had so many happy hours there in the late fifties. Where did it all go? Betty
I do remember swimming there as a child, water was freezing. Toni Cork
Are there any photos of the swimming hole now or is it not a swimming hole anymore.
Hi Betty – if the river is low enough you can see some remnants still I think but usually there’s nothing much to indicate it’s there anymore.
hello Betty sorry to bother you but can you contact me on wisemum@Hotmail.com please
I will await your reply . we are kin to john & Caroline hartshorn
Betty Hartshorn .was wondering if your related to john & Caroline Hartshorn.my grandmother Mary was one of their daughters.!!!
John and Caroline Hartshorn are my great grandparents. How amazing she would have been grandfather’s sister. Offhand I don’t remember seeing a Mary in the family tree but that doesn’t mean a thing. I will look again.
Hello Betty.I was very pleased to receive a reply , can you contact me via my email address
Wisemum@ hotmail.com more information will be revield on mary j j hartshorn .
hello Betty sorry to bother you but can you contact me on wisemum@Hotmail.com please
I will await your reply . we are kin to john & Caroline hartshorn
Hello Betty please contact me via email. You should have it,
This is where I learnt to swim
I remember starting my swimming training life before the pool was built next door to our house in the Tumut Rv just upstream from the bridge. There was a little beach there and we would jump in, swim down with the current and then jump out and run back up the sand/ dirt to the start and do it all again. I to this day can still tolerate quite cold water – and it was cold. I think one of the Sturts was our coach. This would probably been about 1961 ish
Hi there i lived at gocup and went gocup public school and then went to tumut high school my name is bruce lee
Hi Pam I went to school with you, the swimming coach was Tom Sturt or maybe Jack Walsh, Tom managed the new pool for many years, Jack continued to coach, and coached me until 1971.
All the best Brian
I remember the swimming hole pretty well.
Where the river takes a turn to the left, just below the pontoons, there was a large log which was placed accross the corner of the river and this meant the river current created a pond where there was no flow so you could hold onto the log to learn your kicking technique”s.
On the other side of the river, Rosie Zanatti had a water melon patch where we used to creep into to get a feed before heading home.
I remember swimming here in about 1957/58. I was 5 or 6 at the time. I sunk to the bottom and sat there crying. I think I would have drowned if a man on the shore hadn’t noticed. He came to my rescue, pulling me up to the surface.