Dancing From Printing Presses To Fresh Hawkesbury Air

Bob Segerstrom moved to the Hawkesbury in 2016, though he had visited on weekends for many years before that.

He moved to Pitt Town Bottoms for the fresh, clean air.

About four weeks after moving to the area, Mr Segerstrom said that he had visited Parramatta.

He rolled down the window while waiting at the traffic lights and was assailed by the smog.

It was then that he knew he’d made the right decision moving away from the pollution of the city.

Mr Segerstrom worked within the newspaper industry, spending 30 and a half years with Fairfax.

“They were a good organisation to work for,” he said.

“The industry has completely changed.

“It’s all gone, compared to what it was.”

He remembers setting the Sunday Morning Herald, using the largest lot of printing presses in the world.

“It weighed a lot,” he said.

“It was a 160-page broadsheet.”

Mr Segerstrom said that while most things were going digital, there would always be room for newspapers.

A bit of an all-rounder, Mr Segerstrom has also done a bit of fishing and sailing in his day, but it is his love of The Frocks that has taken centre stage in his life at the moment.

“They’re a band called The Frocks,” he said.

“They’re all women and I’ve been following them for nearly 11 years. “The place is packed when they play.”

Mr Segerstrom is already planning to go dancing at the Riverstone Memorial Club on June 25 when The Frocks play next.

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