YALLOURN - YEAR BY YEAR

The first sod in the Victorian Government’s  ambitious scheme, to generate electricity at Yallourn, was turned almost a century ago (1921); and for the next six decades, the township of Yallourn ‘took root, bloomed, withered  and  died’….

“Yallourn was swallowed by the coal mine it was built to serve”… ‘The Herald Sun’ May 2016.

In this history series for the Virtual Yallourn website, the monthly activities, shown in each year, are not necessarily momentous occasions in the town’s history but simply attempt to further highlight the personalities of the town and the myriad of events that made the local (and often national) news.

The walk down ‘Memory Lane’ (not to be confused with Meadow Lane which ran off Latrobe Avenue) begins in the year of 1925 when the plans of the SEC were well underway; and the unique ‘garden town’ of Yallourn was taking shape and creating interest far and wide.

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These  photos were part of montage  of pictures  about Yallourn in the ‘Weekly Times’ on 11th August 1943  under the headline of  ‘Yallourn War Workers’ 

The caption under this photograph of Yallourn State School reads: "Children at the State School who, with children at the High School, have put £ 1 382  into War Savings Certificates, and £462 into the War Relief Fund."