My brother Desmond Tangey passed away on Tuesday the 21st of April 2015 after a breif battle with cancer. Des went to the Yallourn Technical College and was in the naval cadets TS Latrobe in Yallourn. Although he did most of his apprenticeship as an electrical fitter with the RAAF in NSW he finished his final year off at the Yallourn workshops. There are some here who may have known him from Tech. school or worked with him at the SECV. Thankyou from Wayne, his father Jack & sister Dawn.

THE LOST BOY FROM YALLOURN
This newspaper extract, regarding young Harry Rickard’s journey to Melbourne, was published in the ‘Traralgon Record’ in 1932. The story began when Harry, who was just four years of age, attended the celebrations associated with the opening of the Sir John Monash Memorial Monument in the Yallourn Town Square gardens.
Harry’s adventure to the ‘big smoke,’ on that day in 1932, would have been a major topic of conversation around Yallourn that week…it would certainly be big news nowadays.
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Where did Sir John Monash statue go after Yallourn?

The Town That Isn’t There

I grew up in an industrial company-town in Victoria, from the time I was nine until I left school at sixteen.

My father emigrated from Wales after World War II to find work in Australia as a Blacksmith. He wasn’t shoeing horses as may be imagined, but had experience in heavy engineering in the ship-building industry in our home town. That expertise took him into the manufacture and maintenance of heavy machinery at the Power Station in Gippsland where he found work.