This year the Dubbo City Croquet Club will celebrate their 95th birthday. The club is the oldest continuously operating sporting club in Dubbo and started playing in 1921, on the same site behind the Dubbo City Bowling Club where they still play today.
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Each week as they prepare for their birthday celebrations the Daily Liberal will bring you profiles written by some of the longer term members.
This week we meet Del Heywood.
In 1956 I was a student at Dubbo High School and used to play tennis at the Paramount Tennis Club courts in Wingewarra Street.
So I was always aware of the Croquet Ladies and Gentlemen. They always looked smart in their red and white uniform.
There I was playing in the Astley Cup in the tennis team watching the croquet through the fence and now 60 years later I am on the other side of the fence playing croquet.
Loved my tennis and love my croquet.
We have sixty members in the Club and play three mornings a week and will probably extend that by one more day as our membership is increasing.
As the saying goes, use it or loose it. Active body and active mind.