Photos

The Photo has the following written in Pencil on the back -"Cracks Eastern End No2 Level -Opened to 3.00 metres 2nd Feb 1950'

Joyce Crawley (Withers) with Ian Crawley outside 64 Strzelecki Rd in 1950

Here is a newspaper item showing how I arrived in Australia and was destined to call Yallourn home.

Caption: ALL THE WAY FROM SCOTLAND. Mr. and Mrs. John Knox, of Glasgow, pictured on the liner Ormonde, which arrived at Station Pier yesterday. They are going with their sons, Ronald and Ian, to Yallourn.

Source: NLA: 187643307 ‘THE AGE’ SATURDAY 15th APRIL 1950 PAGE: 4

Joe Schembri, his father Paul and two Maltese friends at the Yallourn War Memorial, Yallourn 1950-51

Joe Schembri filling in a Sunday afternoon at a children's playground in Yallourn - 1950s

Source: State Library Victoria: b: 35268

Jim Hill at 1 Allambee Cres - 1950

YHS Football Team 1950

Standing: Max Donelly, Brian Edmondson, xxx Lindsay, Trevor Cahill, Bob Bridle, Don Chisholm, Gerry Stanley, ? , ? , Laurie Castenelli
Seated: Don Hall, Peter Archbold, Trevor Rhode, Alan Marr, Barry Archbold, Arthur Webb, Kenny Rogers, ? , ?
Front Row: Ron Castenelli, ?

Joe Schembri and in the background a view of the West Camp at Yallourn in 1950

Caption: LANDSLIDES — Buildings left precariously near the edge of a 300ft. drop after a land slide at North Yallourn (Vic). Occupants in the buildings have been evacuated.
Source: This photograph was published in the ‘Newcastle Sun’ Monday 3 July 1950. Page: 3.

Caption: THIS STREET in North Yallourn Victoria, ends nowhere — a landslide carried 100yd of if into an old open cut. Pegs in the road indicate where new cracks have appeared 50 ft from the edge threatening buildings.

Source: ‘Daily News’ (Perth) Tuesday 11 July 1950. Page: 10.

Caption: TODAY'S PICTURE FROM NORTH YALLOURN shows workmen dismantling the bakehouse almost on the brink of the 300ft. open cut where the landslide occurred last week. It is a race against time, as the cliff face of the open cut is slowly slipping.
Source: ‘Herald’ (Melbourne) Monday 3 July 1950. Page: 3.

Left - Right: Bob Garvin, George Fullwood, Ian Broberg + Lloyd Chudleigh

Left - Right: Syd Broberg, Noel Kingsley, Jim Garvin, Ward Boag & Alan Schroeder

YHS Football Team 1949
Back Row: Ian Skinner, Don Graham, Bob Bridle, Don Chisholm, Ron Turley, Barry Archbold, Bob Selby-Hele, John Kirwood, Laurie Castanelli, Ron Castanelli
Middle Row: ... Chessum, ?, ?, Lindsay Johnson, Arthur Webb, Mac Dalgleish, John Graham, Fred Marr, Alan Marr
Front Row: ? , Stan Briese, ? , Max Donelly

Paul Evans (1 Boola) and Kevin Brogan

My grandparents house....Leslie & Myrtle Curtis

Elizabeth and Margaret Whitelaw in Kew 1949 - in the background is a small one-room building which was a single man's accommodation at Yallourn. Their grandfather, Ernest Dann, gave it to his granddaughters to use as a playhouse when they moved to Kew in 1947.

YFC stars Gerald Marchesi & Laurie Shipp pictured in this photograph of North Melbourne FC in 1949. Gerald coached YFC in 1955 & 1956. Gerald is 4th from the left in the back row and Laurie is 7th from the left in the back row.

Laurie Shipp in 1949

Laurie Shipp at Training in 1949

This was taken in 1949...the kid at the front left (smallest) is Ian Crawley...he would have been 3 yo. I was –1. It was probably taken when the family lived in Strzelecki Rd and is marked in my mother's handwriting as ‘Alan’s birthday party May 1949’. The only Alan I remember back then was Alan Schroeder ?? .... Neil Crawley

Pat Brennan, Malcolm Roberts, Peter Roberts - 12 Parkway - approx 1949

1949 Yallourn Football Club

Back Row: Ian Watt; Cliff Williamson: Des Madden; Allan McIntyre; Ian Robinson; Lloyd Brewer; George Card (Captain/Coach); Bruce Knight; Bernie Nairn; Tom Piggott

Front Row: George Botten; Bill Shaw; Simon Shaw; Bill Godfrey; Ron O’Keefe; Bob McDonough; Max Cordy; Stan Brown

Mascots: Colin Broberg; B Whitmore

Snow at 1 Allambee Cres - 1949

1949 - Yallourn Taxi Collision

"The driver and 5 passengers in this Yallourn taxi escaped serious injury when it crashed into a low trailer loaded with a bulldozer on the Princes Highway at Officer early on Saturday."

Source: NLA: 22725887 THE ARGUS MONDAY 2nd MAY 1949 PAGE: 3

Source: Fred Marr

Source: Fred Marr

Possibly Yallourn Churches Team - Juniors

YHS Football Team Circa 1949

Standing: John Wallace, Don Graham, Bob Bridle, Doug Chisholm, ? , xxx Turley, Barry Archbold, ? , John Kerwood, Laurie Castenelli, Ron Castenelli
Seated: Ivan Chessum, xxx Griffith, Kenny Rogers, Lindsay Johnson, Arthur Webb, Mac Dalgleish, John Graham, Fred Marr, Alan Marr
Front Row: Billy Fisher, Stan Briese, Barry Jackson, Max Donelly

Brig John Field on left

Geoff Flower

Back Row: George Carr, Brian Douglas, Peter Watkinson, Kevin Powell, Jack Whitbread, Jack Driscoll, Frank McIvor
Middle Row: Bob Pollock, Graham McWilliams, John Lawson
Front Row: Stan Ostlund, Charlie Cullen, Max Collins, ?, Jack Brown,

(Names on photo)

Students are en-route to see a Shakespeare Play

(Names on photo)

1948 YHS Cricket Team

Back: Russell Pruden, Bill Fisher, Ivan Chessum, Don Chisholm, Barry Archibold, Brian Edmonson, Lindsay Johnson
Front: John Graham, Mac Dalgleish, John Kirwood, Bob Bridle, Fred Marr

1948 YHS Football Team

Back: John Wallace, Don Graham, Bob Bridle, Don Chisholm, ……………….., Barry Archibold, ………………,
John Kirwood, ……………………., Ron Castanelli
Middle: Ivan Chessum, …………………., ……………………, Lindsay Johnson, Arthur Webb, Mac Dalgleish,
John Graham, Fred Marr, Alan Marr
Front: Bill Fisher, Stan Breeze, Barry Jackson, Max Donnelly

(Names on photo)

(Names on Photo)

Dennis Driscoll, Joan Stewart & .... - 1948

SEC Power Station - 1948

Nick Tabaczynski (Olga's dad) and workmates - just arrived in Australia and got work at the SEC Yallourn.

Arthur Brogan, Marj Brogan and Kevin Brogan at 2 Boola Crescent - Hernes Oak in the background

Back Left: Pat Embry, ?, ?, Lona Davies, ?, ?, - Hull, Shirley Graski, ?, ?, ?,
Middle: ?, (Bob Thornton's wife), ?, ?, Enid Davies, Marjory Mays, Elma Tonkin, /, Val Kerr, ?, ?,
Front: ?, ?, ?, Mrs McGinnis, ?, ?, -Hawkins, - Whitbourne

Rent on 35 Strzelecki Rd - paid 17 May 1948 by Ken (Mick) Hender

Edwin married Essie Vincent, after James Francis Vincent died and therefore is stepfather to Chris & Paul (dec).

In 1948 a new fire station opened in Terminal Place. The station included 4 fully self contained flats, three trailer pumps, six bay station housing, two units and three station vehicles, there was also a billiard room and workshop.

The Fire Station, Monash Square, and Kernot Hall were the last Yallourn facilities to be removed as they were being used as Apprentice Training
annexe - they were demolished in early 1987.

Standing: Keith Walker (Goal Umpire), Tom Oswald, Syd Collins, Gerald Knight, Milton Kingsley, John Kirwood, Jim Watt, Bill White, Bob Oswald (Treasurer)
Middle Row: Claude Hayes (Coach), G Christie, Keith Shepherd, Claude Whitbourne (Bub), Jim Shepherd, John Boag, Keith Squires, Jack Huxtable (Secretary)
Front Row: Bill Lawrey, Ken Passey, Kevin Green

(Missing from team photo are Gilbert McPhee, Bill Blackwood and Mick Blackwood)

Alan McIntyre…one of Yallourn’s finest forwards. Alan kicked 2 goals in Yallourn’s historic win over Morwell in the 1948 Grand Final. In 1949 Alan kicked 18 goals against Trafalgar.

THE C.G.F.L. 1948 PREMIER TEAM ~ YALLOURN FOOTBALL CLUB

CAPTAIN & COACH OF THE 1948 PREMIERSHIP TEAM ~ TED HILL