Elwood Life Saving Club
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The Royal Life Saving Society of Australia was formed in 1894 with a branch established in Sydney. The Victorian branch was inaugurated at the Port Phillip Club Hotel in Melbourne on December 6th, 1904.
The first Club in Victoria was established at Elwood in 1911, on the old rifle range, near Point Ormond. The Club’s founding fathers were at the forefront of the push to change State legislation to allow “open sea” and “mixed-sex” bathing during daylight hours. Until these changes were made, bathing in the sea could only be done inside the many enclosed “bathing houses” which dotted the shoreline of the northern reaches of Port Phillip Bay.
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