- Title
- Cook's Hill Life Saving & Surf Club: the first hundred years
- Creator
- Ramsland, John
- Relation
- http://www.brolgapublishing.com.au/title.php?Bn=QW5FbmNvZGVkU3RyaW5nT2ZCcm9sZ2FQdWJsaXNoaW5nXzEzOA==
- Publisher
- Brolga Publishing
- Resource Type
- book
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- This is a graphic saga of a great community surf club. Founded in 1911, the original members hailed from Cook’s Hill, a struggling working-class precinct of Newcastle. Men were involved in heavy industry, confronted on a daily basis with life-threatening situations. Several of these men volunteered to be surf lifesavers to protect members of the community from the dangers of the deep at Bar Beach, a popular local surfing spot. With modest resources, ordinary Australians began to do extraordinary things. What unfolds is a tale of heroism, of sporting accomplishment through adversity — two world wars and, in between, the Great Depression — and then on to the 21st century. There are stories of exciting, hotly contested carnivals, ferocious deadly shark attacks and heroic rescues. There is a history of ups and downs, but even by 1928, Cook’s Hill had indelibly stamped itself as a premier club on the national scene and ever since then winning innumerable awards.
- Subject
- Cook's Hill Life Saving & Surf Club; Newcastle; surf lifesavers; surf lifesaving; Bar Beach
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1053572
- Identifier
- uon:15625
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781921596643
- Language
- eng
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