The photos were taken on the 15 June 1924 and show Horace & Mary Lynch's house at 12 Maiden Street.
Horace Lynch is establishing the front lawn.
A MEMORIAL CAIRN AT HERNES OAK - 1994
This is a photograph of Peter Scott and Dorothy Taylor unveiling a cairn in tribute to the community of Hernes Oak . The ceremony took place in 1994; and some 70 local people attended the special gathering.
YALLOURN - YEAR BY YEAR - 1925
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."
Caption: A gas producer attached to a Wolsley car, Yallourn, September 1943. Because of petrol rationing during World War II, many cars carried converters to allow their engines to run on gas made from charcoal.
Source: Museums Victoria. Reference: MM11102 September 1943.
The caption below the middle photograph above read:
“WITHIN ONLY ONE HUNDRED YARDS OF THE POWER-HOUSE AT YALLOURN, this bush fire swept through timbered country yesterday. Only the change in the direction of the wind saved the township from destruction...”
THE PAGE ONE ARTICLE ABOUT THE FIRES AT YALLOURN
The article on the front page of the same newspaper read as follows:
THREE-MILE FRONT OUTBREAK AT YALLOURN
When the Saints go Marching in - Track from "Music Theatre", the 1963 record made by the Yallourn High School Choir
The Moon - Track from "Music Theatre", the 1963 record made by the Yallourn High School Choir
The Drunken Sailor - Track from "Music Theatre", the 1963 record made by the Yallourn High School Choir
Sinner Man - Track from "Music Theatre", the 1963 record made by the Yallourn High School Choir