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Back Row:  Peter Crooks, ? , Wendy Foley, Karen Cook, Marjorie Oakley, Leanne Lawry, Sue Cairns, Kay McInnes, ? , ? 2nd Back Row:  ? , ? , ? , Jane Murray, Shane-Maree Rawiller, ? , ? , Nada Marinkovic, ? 2nd Row:  ? , Gary Suckling, Teddy Simic, Gary Byrne, ? , Jeff Cook, ? , ? , ? , Ricky Pemberton Front Row:  Wendy Fyfe, Julie Wilson, Peta-Lee Leslie, Michelle Kelly, Ann Smith, ? , Christine Bowman, Gail Pearson, Sue Passey Seated with plaque:  Graeme Renwick

Yallourn High School Teachers - 1974

Back Row: Mrs Hanlon (Librarian), Ian Wallis, Kerry Ball, Peter Stretton, John Waterson, Bill Roots, Dave Dobinson, Larry Riley, John Benson, Mr Johnson, Phil Nash, Neville Rowley, Mephan McEwin

Front Row: Annette Harvey, Lois Groves, Shirley Brown, Alistair Balfour (Principal), Wally McKenzie, Trudy Monk, Carol Pye, Margaret Crosby, Shirley Crookes (Office), Mrs Butcher (Office), ? , Paula Harsant

Yallourn High School Teachers - 1976

Back Row: John Waterson, Richard Gubbins, Neville Rowly, Gary Batey, Phil Nash, Dave Dobinson, Bill Roots, Joe Carlsson, M Evans Middle Row: Trudy Monk, ? , Carol Pye, Lois Groves, ? , Rhonda Pither, Paula Harsant, Ian Wallis, Mephan Mackenzie McEwin Front Row: Mrs Butcher (Office), Kerry Ball, Shirley Crookes, Laurie Huffer, Mrs Pattle (Library), Margaret Crosby, Mrs Volny

YHS 1971 - Form 1 Girls

YHES (later YHS) students doing a Quaker Dance in Broadway Gardens - 1939

First headmaster and pupils - 1923

The first sod in the Victorian Government’s ambitious scheme to generate electricity at Yallourn was turned more than a century ago (sometime around 1920);  and for the next six decades  the unique township of Yallourn ‘took root,  prospered , bloomed, withered  and  died’….

This photograph of Princess Margaret talking to local school children at Yallourn was taken in October 1975.

Can any readers remember that visit? Any readers who may have photographs or memorabilia from that day may like to forward them to Julie for posting on the Virtual Yallourn website. Thank you. 

This is a notice for anyone, especially nurses, that graduated from the LVCH, Yallourn. My wife Lidwina (Ina) SN Maier passed away a few months ago. The illness was sarcoidosis and it finally resulted in acute right heart failure. My wife died in the hospital at Joondalup Health Campus, Perth. Robin (String) Morgan

Caption Text: These three Yallourn Primary School pupils were pictured enjoying themselves, in the snow, on top of Coach Road, Yallourn.  Source: ‘Contact’ Magazine- June 1977.

Snow falls in Yallourn never failed to create a sense of wonder and a buzz of excitement; and there are quite a few photographs of ‘snow in the town’ on this website.

IMAGES  OF YALLOURN - 1969 - THE PARKS  AND GARDENS OF YALLOURN

This photograph was taken in 1969; and shows the-then Parks and Gardens Overseer, Mr Howard Baird, tending to the plants in the nursery hot-house at Yallourn.

Yallourn - Year by Year - 1928

The first sod, in the Victorian Government’s ambitious scheme to generate electricity at Yallourn,  was turned more than a century ago (sometime around 1920);  and for the next six decades, the unique township of Yallourn ‘took root, prospered, bloomed, withered  and  died’….

L-R: Barbara Comber, Merle Densby, Margaret Densby, Mavis Webb, Kay Spurrier