Northam – 1944-55
The Avon River experienced severe flooding in 1945.[xxxii]
In the summer of 1955, the river flooded again, threatening to deluge Northam town.[xxxiii]
Noongar elder, Gus Ryder remembers this well: “All of a sudden when I woke up in the morning… all you could see when you were there, was the leaves of the trees’.