"Jack's a Legend in his time" - a video by The Local Footy Show 2022
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Yallourn - Year by Year - 1931
The first sod in the Victorian Government’s ambitious scheme, to generate electricity at Yallourn, was turned more than a century ago (sometime around 1920); 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, various events in the life of the town and its industries have been chronicled. The monthly activities, shown in each year, are not necessarily the most momentous occasions but simply attempt to show the many varied and interesting happenings that made the local (and sometimes national) news in that era.
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 for the Yallourn Project were well underway and the ‘garden town’ of Yallourn was creating interest far and wide.
1931
JANUARY: Enrolments for the Herald’s ‘Free Learn to Swim’ campaign commenced across Victoria on January 17th 1931. Mr McNeil of the West Camp at Yallourn was the designated contact person for those interested in joining the program, which included daily lessons. Mr McNeil was the Honorary Secretary of the Yallourn Swimming Club at that time.
FEBRUARY: According to the Melbourne ‘Age’, a branch of the Housewives’ Association was formed at Yallourn sometime in February 1931. The inaugural office bearers were:- President: Mrs. Bennett, Vice-presidents: Mesdames Meens and Lucas, Hon. Treasurer: Mrs. Morton; and Mrs. A. Wilson was listed as the Secretary. One the of major issues of the ‘Association’, at that time, was the high cost of school text books.
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IMAGES OF YALLOURN
1956 - ‘LITTLE OLYMPICS’ CARNIVAL AT THE YALLOURN OVAL
Julie posted this photograph on the Virtual Yallourn website in October 2010; and the coloured banners, summer dress styles, massive crowd and the tree lined background suggest that the photograph was probably taken at the Little Olympics at Yallourn in 1956.
Click on the link (below) to the full pdf article where there are extracts from metropolitan newspapers which will give younger readers some background understanding of the ‘Little Olympics’; and the lengths to which the Yallourn Amateur Athletic Club went to in making the event such a resounding success.
The text to one of the articles reads:
Only a dream two years ago, now...
YALLOURN TO GET LITTLE GAMES
MORWELL, Monday: The little Olympic Games are coming to Yallourn, the little country town which is the heart of Victoria's power and light. What seemed a dream two years ago is coming true on December 2.
Local amateur athletic club members are frequent visitors these days to Olympic Village, calling on managers of world teams and inviting entries for a Yallourn athletics meeting the day after this section of the Games finishes at Melbourne.
Harry Hopman will officially open the Yallourn Games. Managers of the visiting Games teams have still to select their teams, and Yallourn will know later this week who will take part in the Little Olympics.
Promises have been given from Russia, Italy, Greece, and entries have been made by Liberia, Burma, India, England, Australia, the Argentine, Uruguay, and Nationalist China.
A crowd of more than 20,000 is expected at the Yallourn meeting, which has the support of the whole town.
A special train will run from Melbourne for athletes, managers, and visitors.
THE RESULTS OF THE LITTLE OLYMPICS AT YALLOURN IN 1956
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