So far we have displayed in our Museum 80 years of the opening of the Parkes Swimming Pool.

In our display we chose different costumes worn over those 80 years commencing with the blue and maroon woollen costumes worn in the 1930s and 1940s as Parkes Swimming Club Colours.

We displayed old photos  taken at the Pool over those 80 years. 

The very large clock given to the Parkes people by the Giles family and the very valuable porcelain tiles taken out of the old Waders Pool were also featured.

We joined with the Anglican Church to celebrate 140 years of the Parish of Parkes.

The large display we are working on now in the Wongalea School building is the World War One and Anzac Gallipoli and the Boomerang March of 1916.

Our visit to the Australian War Museum early in March has helped us to work on the display and our  search for many items in our collection to be brought out and displayed for the first time. 

We have also received a number of newspaper items that have been published over the years to commemorate  an event - eg. Gallipoli, Fromelle, Somme. 

We have a copy of the Poem “Anzac on the Wall’ and have also found information about the first landing at Anzac Cove.

There are other small pieces of poetry, and the names of the ships and submarines used in the war.

We hope to open this display on our “Smoke Rattle and Rust Day” on April 11. 

This year it is also hoped to have an reinactment of the Boomerang March, possibly in October.

We will continue to work on our time line of historical events which took place during the rest of 1915.

Yvonne Hutton OAM  President