Caption: Footscray Football Team left Melbourne for Yallourn where it will meet St Kilda today. In this parlour coach are:
(front, from left): D. Reynolds, E. Whitten, A. Abbey, B. Smallwood
(Back Row); A. Linton, A. Edwards, F. Aked
SOURCE: 205401904 ‘THE AGE’ SATURDAY 14th JUNE 1952 PAGE : 8
Can anyone add any names. Ken Williams is brother of Geoff, who is featured in FROM THE NEWSPAPERS below.
In 1939 Yallourn Blues played Leongatha in the Central Gippsland FL Grand Final at Trafalgar.
In the above photo, Ken Williams is probably the player fourth from the right in the back row. He is standing next to Col Webster. The captain of the team in that CGFL Grand Final was Bert Downes ( formerly of Fish Creek FC).
The final scores were:
Yallourn: 16. 12. 108 defeated Leongatha: 9.9. 63
Goal kickers for Yallourn: Batson 7 Barton 5 Comber 2 Beulke 1 Williams 1
1942 - A SOLDIER FROM YALLOURN WINS RECOGNITION
This news report was written during World War:II and tells of a letter which was forwarded to the Chairman of the Apprenticeship Committee of Yallourn regarding Geoff Williams and his outstanding work as a tradesman and soldier.
The letter was written by Captain Bardsley of the Australian Army Field Workshops and was published in the ‘Morwell Advertiser’ on the 22nd January 1942.
The footnotes that accompany this story may assist readers in appreciating the nature of Geoff’s duties and also refer to his family who lived in Yallourn.
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1940 Yallourn State School - Grade 5
Back Row: Bruce Machin, Frank Randall, Bill Jones, Twin Harkin, Bob Connely, Peg Welfare, xxx Parry, Frank Sutton, Stan Wright, Gerald Knight, Warwick Squires, Merv Price, Bill Whately
2nd Back Row: Lauris Stanger, June Mould, Wilma Irvine, Fae Lawson, Mary Sutton, Doreen Powell, Shirley Whitmore, Meryl Johnstone, Irene Hull, Barbara O'Brien, Kath O'Brien
2nd Row: Kath Hayes, ? , Lois Evans, June Pettigrew, Chris Garvin, Beryl Tremain, Eunice Densby, Bernice Leiper, Gwyneth Griffiths, Tom Oswald
Standing: Ray Kitney, ? , Wally George, George Bates, Sam French, Bruce Knight, B Nairn, Peter Watkinson, John Jackson, Ken McColl, Tom Piggett, Kevin Fanning, Bill Harkins, Roy Whelan, Toby Williams, Russell Kingsley
Sitting: Bill Griffiths, Daryl Knight, ? , Simon Shaw, John Price, Cyril Moreland, George Botten, Stan Brown, Frank Kelly (Coach)
Photo provided by Lauris Stanger
The force and the source: Monash in 1926, aged 60, holds a lump of brown coal at the Yallourn site, two years after electricity began to flow. Only someone with Monash’s vision, political skills and drive could have built such a successful industry from scratch.
From ‘ Monash -The Outsider who Won a War.’ By Roland Perry . Random House Australia 2007
The original source of this photograph is not known.
Home was 77 Church Street
Staff at Yallourn General Store, before it was Rockman's.
Back Row: ? , ? , ? , ? , Robert Kerr, ? , ?
Middle Row: ? , ? , ? , ? , ? , Vern Arnol
Front Row: ? , ? , ?
FROM THE NEWSPAPERS
1953.
A NEW DEPARTMENT STORE FOR YALLOURN
This news article tells of the announcement of a new Rockman’s Store at Yallourn in 1953. It was welcome news for the people of the town and it signified the beginning of a new era of commerce in Yallourn.
It was the Rockman’s 58th store in Australia; and the company took over the operations of the Yallourn General Store which had been owned by the SEC since 1922. The General Store was the only shop in the early days of settlement.
Man in back row third from
Man in back row third from right with pullover on is Robert Kerr of Southway