Guyra History: High water rising - the devastation of 1962

By Bob Walsh
Updated October 18 2018 - 3:48pm, first published 3:00pm
Extensive damage: Floodwaters in Derby Street on Friday, January 12, 1962.
Extensive damage: Floodwaters in Derby Street on Friday, January 12, 1962.

The Walcha News of January 18, 1962, said: “The most disastrous flood in living memory hit Walcha at lunch time on Friday causing damage estimated at a quarter of million pounds.

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