Objects of Substance- Shirley Lahey Togs

Shirley Lahey obviously regarded her Grammar swimming exploits as significant because she kept her costume, and wrote in 1989 to the then Principal, Judith Hancock, asking if the School would like her togs for the archives. She reminisced, “this Speedo swimsuit was worn by me in the Brockway Cup in 1939, just fifty years ago. I competed as an under 14-year-old in the relay event.”