Bands & orchestras

Bands often played at the openings of ocean baths and at swimming carnivals.

The bands might be town bands, school bands or a Salvation Army Boys Home band. Bands associated with the miners federation or the steelworks performed at pools in the Illawarra.

At Forster during the 1940s, the ocean baths were run in conjunction at the adjacent dance casino, where dance orchestras performed.

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