Yallourn Fountain and Scouts by Malcolm Gibson 2003

Malcolm Gibson YHS 1962 wrote - “the photograph of one of the Yallourn fountains certainly brings back memories. I don't recall specific dates, circumstances etc but I recall two occasions when detergent was used in the fountain, one of these occasions also involved a quantity of potassium permanganate (Condies crystals) which turned the frothy water purple. As to who the perpetrators were is anyone's guess, but I would say that the list of suspects would be fairly large and would probably not hold any surprises to those of us from that era. Good harmless fun eh? Wouldn't happen these days, they'd go and burn somebody’s car or trash a house or bash a granny.

For info, just spent the last weekend at the scout rover hut on Mount Erica with Steve Morgan, Ewen McPherson, Timmy Apps, Pete Phillips, Dave Ferguson, Ian Castell, Andrew Mounter. Has become a yearly pilgrimage (another instance of Yallourn bonding) and was very enjoyable - plenty of stories/fables told and modified….Mal G.”