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Learning to swim in 1930s

The Capricorn Coast Historical Society contributed this photo fop Ross Creek in the 1930s.
By the Capricorn Coast Historical Society

Ross Creek was the site of Yeppoon’s first swimming pool. In the 1930s, Claude Press, a teacher at the State […]

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