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Source: Daniel Bridgman

Source: Daniel Bridgman

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Source: Stefan Tomasz

Source: Stefan Tomasz

Source: Stefan Tomasz

Source: Stefan Tomasz

Source: Stefan Tomasz

Source: Stefan Tomasz

A TROTTING HORSE NAMED ‘YALLOURN’ Over the past few years, serious efforts have been made to unearth the background information surrounding a trotting horse named ‘Yallourn.’

Newspaper articles indicate that Yallourn raced between 1948 and 1953. Following substantial research and with the kind help of various people associated with Harness Racing Australia, the following facts regarding the pacer, named Yallourn, have been established:-

Source: Item MM10230- From the ‘Museum Victoria’ collections. https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/763854

This photo is part of a large photographic collection of glass plate and film negatives, photographic prints and photo albums, relating to the development of the electric power supply industry in Victoria, operated by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV) from 1919 to 1993 and various predecessors private and municipal power supply enterprises dating back to the late 1880s.

Ken Tate in the lounge at 61 Church Street - approx 1959

Yallourn FC 1936 Premiers & Champions Dan Hutton, B. Green, G. Beston, B. Crawford, T. Knight, L. Kiernan, G. Mahoney, E. Franklin, K. Williamson, G. Slatter, T. McKay, Jack Piggott, Ernie Davies, J. Egan, H. Smith, B. Godfrey, B. Marshall, J. Fincher, S. Attenborough

Gary Tate, Cheryl Borrill (Cousin) and Hazel Anderson (friend) aprox 1975

A LUCKY ESCAPE - this news report was found in the ‘Barrier Miner,’ a newspaper which was published in Broken Hill from 1888-1954.

The article centres about the rescue of two workers at Yallourn in 1939. The workers named in the newspaper report were Les Kennedy and Syd Abbot. Both men had been pinned, for more than one hour, by an inadvertent coal fall from a bunker at the power station.

The details of the frantic efforts by fellow workers to rescue Les and Syd would have been of great interest to miners in Broken Hill who faced similar dangers each day in their work.

Yallourn 'B' power station boiler house firing floor, circa 1938. Source: Museum Victoria. Reg: MM 0106176

Circa 1928 - a 1500 ton coal bunker under construction at Yallourn A Station Source: State Library of Victoria H200918/457