Clyde life was essentially rural with the only visual reminder of the big city being the newspaper from the store or the trains running twice in the morning and returning in the afternoon. Maintaining a farm along with limited cash meant that the community needed to provide its own social life, sport and cultural activities. From among your neighbours were the same people who you saw at church, the dance, the annual school concert, at farewells for departing residents, at the cricket match, at the clearing sales, or at the store. They belonged to the same committees, their children were at the same school and mostly the only people they visited outside of the Clyde area were relatives.
This section shows the diversity of community life in Clyde. Does the reader have any further information on the following groups?
1. Country Women's Association groups -Clyde and Clyde North. (Do you know what happened to the Clyde CWA Minute Book?)
2. Cricket Club
3. Tennis Club
4. Football Club
6. Individual Sporting Activities
7. Clyde Progress Association
8. Klyde Klub Social
9. Debating and Mutual Improvement Club
10. Band of Hope
11. Fund Raising Sporting Events
12. Returned Soldiers group
13. Dancing and Social Club
14. Melbourne Hunt Club
An interesting newspaper item from the 1880's showed that permission from the Cranbourne Shire Council was required for a public hall to become a dancing hall.
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