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Surf bathing, Manly, between 1900 and 1910

Manly Council was among the first to protect surf bathers, employing two fishermen, the Sly brothers, to patrol offshore and, in 1905, a lifeguard, Edward ‘Happy’ Eyre.

Source

State Library of New South Wales, PXE 711/277

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