A teenager protecting his family property, a 15-year-old girl delivering urgent flood notes by bicycle and a local man capturing the action on an 8-millimetre camera. These are some of the stories of the 1956 floods.
Mr Tucker said his family's property was lucky to be saved from inundation, and while not everyone experienced the same fortune, the community rallied behind those who needed help.
"At one stage we had a northerly wind … and the water was being washed over the bank with the force of it. I got a shot of the chaps putting brush on it to stop the waves from going over the top."Her job was to deliver by bicycle the notes that called for urgent help with the flood effort, on behalf of the local council."It just about rained every day [in 1956].
"It was all written on a piece of paper and you'd hand it to the bloke and be back off to the office again because there'd be another message to go to someone else."'Look out for each other'
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