There was little more than inches in it at the finish of the second heat of the senior 100yards at the country championship athletics meeting at Olympic Park on Saturday. M. Florence (Shepparton) (nearest camera) won from K. Lucas (Ballarat) (centre) with W. Naylor (Yallourn) third.
SOURCE: NLA 206111719 ‘THE AGE’ MONDAY 26th JANUARY 1953 PAGE: 11
I wrote this song back in 1999 thinking about the effect on Yallourn of everyone moving and how i cant really take my Children back now to show them where i was born.
The song is available here https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/stories-through-time/id1053010407
Ghost Town – Billy Bridge 1999
V1:
Look at this place he said as he smiled and shook his head
A young town in an old towns face but it may as well be dead
They built the town ‘cause the work was here now they’ve sold it all away
They don’t understand the sweat and tears, shed along the way.
A STEP FORWARD IN COMMUNITY HEALTH
The following newspaper extract reports on the opening of the Yallourn Infant Welfare Centre in 1949. It was great news for the town and the new amenity meant a great deal for local families. As mentioned in the report below, the Country Women’s Association had lobbied long and hard to the SEC for a new health facility dedicated to infants and their mothers.
The Infant Welfare Centre was built overlooking the gardens in Broadway; it was an ideal site for such an important building for mothers and children to visit as needed.
Source: Museum Victoria
Source: Museum Victoria
Allan Schroeder, of Yallourn, was the surprise 1950 King’s Prize winner, a dramatic shoot-off with Percy Pavey.
Picture above shows him on the mound and at right, he is carried off in the traditional chair to the acclaim of the other shooters.
SOURCE: NLA 22815528 ‘THE ARGUS’ SATURDAY 11TH MARCH 1950 PAGE 45.
Canadian diving champion, Lynda Adams, who visited Yallourn in 1938.
Source: British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame (Vancouver)
Lynda Adams in action…Note: This photograph was taken at the North Sydney Olympic Pool (not the Yallourn Pool) in 1938.
Source: ‘Goulburn Evening Post’ January 26th 1938 page: 5
A Yallourn connection….Irene Donnet in action in 1936.
Source: ‘Advocate’ (Burnie -Tasmania) February 26th 1936 Page: 7.
A FAMOUS CANADIAN VISITS YALLOURN
In 1938 the British Empire Games were held in Sydney and a well-known Canadian sports star, Lynda Adams, was a foremost competitor in the diving events. Following the games, Lynda travelled to Yallourn to participate in a diving exhibition at the Yallourn (Lake) Pool. This brief article, published in ‘The Argus’ in May 1938, tells of Lynda’s visit to Yallourn….
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May 5th 1938 ‘THE ARGUS’ Page: 14
CANADIAN GIRL DIVER
Canadian diving champion, Lynda Adams, who visited Yallourn in 1938.
Source: British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame (Vancouver)
Lynda Adams in action…Note: This photograph was taken at the North Sydney Olympic Pool (not the Yallourn Pool) in 1938.
Source: ‘Goulburn Evening Post’ January 26th 1938 page: 5
