Photos

This photo was taken at Dargo in 1929 by Dr James Andrew. Would anyone recognise any of the faces?

L-R: Daphne Selby-Hele, Dawn Yeomans, Ruth Ray

Back to Yallourn - High School
L-R: ... , ... , Rita Stephens, Lorraine Hutton, Joyce Fletcher, ... , Dawn Yeomans

Committee Members: Julie George & Jean Fox (with Joy Francis & Sarah George)

Back Row: Chris Francis, Jeanette Tilley, Anne McInnes, Jeanette Foggo, Heather Grimes, Judy Williams
Front Row: Penny Gloss, Carol-Ann McKean, Jenny Langdon, Janet McKinna, Bev Malpass

(Names on photo)

YHS Football Team 1950

Standing: Max Donelly, Brian Edmondson, xxx Lindsay, Trevor Cahill, Bob Bridle, Don Chisholm, Gerry Stanley, ? , ? , Laurie Castenelli
Seated: Don Hall, Peter Archbold, Trevor Rhode, Alan Marr, Barry Archbold, Arthur Webb, Kenny Rogers, ? , ?
Front Row: Ron Castenelli, ?

YHS Football Team Circa 1949

Standing: John Wallace, Don Graham, Bob Bridle, Doug Chisholm, ? , xxx Turley, Barry Archbold, ? , John Kerwood, Laurie Castenelli, Ron Castenelli
Seated: Ivan Chessum, xxx Griffith, Kenny Rogers, Lindsay Johnson, Arthur Webb, Mac Dalgleish, John Graham, Fred Marr, Alan Marr
Front Row: Billy Fisher, Stan Briese, Barry Jackson, Max Donelly

Back row ?, ?, Mark Hawken, Peter McLennan, ?, John Pemberton, Alister Thorpe, Phillip Davies, Kevin Love, John Watkinson, Greg Hedt
Front row ?, ?, Gary Hedt

Unknown players - possibly early 70s?

Back Row: Graham French, Rodney McAllister, Andrew McClare, David Benson, Paul McIntyre, Rick Parry, Paul Hilditch, Ross Thomson, David McLennan, Fleming, Dennis Smith; Coach - Joe Carmody
Front Row: Jack Dell, ? , James ?, Graeme Dinsdale, Ray Duxbury, Peter Kinne, Steve George, Leigh Setches, Kevin Harkins, Paul Lyons

Back Row: George Botten, Tim McCoy, George Newton, Col Webster, Claude Hayes, Col Benson.
2nd Row: Bunny Comber, Kevin Comber, Fred Byron, Peter O'Neil + Alan Hawkins.

Des Tuddenham from Collingwood FC comes to visit the YFC Juniors in May 1962

1954

Back Row: Bill White, Bill Jackson, George Bates, John Paice, Alan McIntyre, Lloyd Brewer, Bruce Knight, John Mann, Ken McColl, ?, ?
2nd Row: ?, Claude Whitbourne, Kevin Fanning, Frank Kelly, Jimmy Shaw, Stan Brown
Front Row: Rod Bennett, George Botton, ?, Colin Broberg, ?, Daryl Knight

From Roger Spaull -
“My love of AFL and country football has never diminished and my research and writings about football never fail to throw up surprises and interesting stories of the lives of men, country clubs and towns.

Outside Science Room : Brenda Block, Ken Greenway, Pam Baker, Mr Lindsay Young, Janice Evans
Kenn Rogers, Betty Wallace + Liz ...

Back Row: Pat McIvor, Ken Hartley, Ron McGregor, Len Hilditch, John Hutchinson, Jack Lye
Front Row: Ted Phillpot, Trevor Whitmore, Bob McGregor, Stan Ostlund, Doug Mussared

Yallourn C Grade on No 4 Oval

Back Row: Paul McIntyre, Grant Petigrew, Ian Burrows, John Hurford, Bernie Eddy, Bruce MacRae, John Canovan, Robert (Jock) Welsh
Front Row: Andrew Waddington, Dudley Sharpe, Geoff Gordon, Don Waddington

Yallourn Cemetery opened 20 January 1930.

This is a tribute to both Wilma and Ralph Wicks, wonderful people who were my former parents-in-law, and also a tribute to the gardeners of Yallourn, who in its heyday created such a lovely, well-kept town...and finally, a tribute to my mother, Elna Lerche, a keen gardener, who passed away in 2006. Ralph Wicks was also devoted to his garden in Yallourn. The original, mature, plant was given to my mother by Wilma Wicks in 1969, and was kept in Mum's garden until 2006, when I (Inge) inherited it.

Yallourn Youth Club - Mavis McAllister (Webb) - 1948 bike hike to Narracan Falls

Elvie Chancellor, Kath and Barb OBrien, Peggy Simcoe, xx, Elspeth Beulke, Mavis Webb, Bruce Spencer, xx, Bob Jamieson, Arthur Webb, Vera Webb, Lexie Hayes, Cath Hayes, Hughie Graham

This rare photograph was unearthed in the ‘Weekly Times’ under the heading of ‘Yallourn War Workers.’
Caption: ‘ Committee of Yallourn Women's National Emergency Fund, which has sent 1380 parcels to local servicemen and women, and 2600 knitted garments for the Red Cross and A.C.F. : Mesdames B.T. Drummond (Sec.), W.G. Monteith, R. A Hunt (President), H.W. Lynch, R. McGowan (Treasurer), C. Tinker, C.M. Smith, C.T. Habich, E. Madden, W. Kerr, C.F. Jolliffe, L. Dann.”

Commission and Decommission Dates:
Yallourn A: 1928 - 1969
Yallourn B: 1932 - 1970
Yallourn C: 1954 - 1985
Yallourn D: 1957 - 1986
Yallourn E: 1961 - 1989
Yallourn W: 1973-1982 (then owned by Energy Australia till current)

A sketch of Yallourn Township by Andy Spaull in 2009.

A sketch of Yallourn Township by Andy Spaull in 2009.

Yallourn- the map of the streets the over burden dredge covered. The coal mining got as far as the hospital.

Patricia (Pat) Barton is holding the hands of her son, Stuart, left and daughter, Sally.
St Therese's Church is the white building, back left and the post office is the main building in view to the right.

Yallourn scene showing shops, Catholic presbytery, St Therese's Church, Post Office and State Savings Bank

Standing (left to right) - Unknown High School Teacher, Sid Joliffe, Marj Brogan, Cec Nash, Edna Whitely, Lillian Beck
Sitting (left to right) - John Phillips (High School Teacher), Unknown High School teacher, Jim Evans, Penny Bowler, Unknown High School teacher

Possibly a Christmas excursion/picnic?

Source: Daniel Bridgman

Yallourn Tennis Club Life Membership - Presented to Jim Hill on 18.9.1961

Lawn Tennis Association of Victoria - Life Membership presented to Jim Hill 7.8.1967

Latrobe Valley Lawn Tennis Association - Life Membership presented to Jim Hill 24.3.1979

Source: Daniel Bridgman

This photo was dated 1959 but appears to be much older than that. Would love some tennis stories on here.

Source: Daniel Bridgman

Spectators at opening of Railway Avenue buildings of Yallourn Technical School 1936

Members of the YSC in front of the 'old' members' tin dressing sheds:

Back Row: Neville Gapes, Jim Richardson, Geoff Hall
2nd Back Row: Janet Walton, Lois Gust, Robyn Garden
2nd Row: Sandra Doxford, Lorraine Dupree, Margaret Wood
Front Row: Heather Stewart, Mary Hutchinson

Girls Under 14 Backstroke. Unfortunately the faces are not shown but I am in lane 8. The club carnivals were great events as shown by the crowd of supporters. My family (Wolff) left Yallourn in January 1966 and I really missed the Swimming Club. Although I was in the swimming team at my new school in Geelong nothing was like the Club at Yallourn....Diane Wolff

Members of Yallourn Swimming Club at Bendigo for Country Championships in 1962

Standing: Michael Palmer (Morwell Swimming Club)
On Cannon (L - R) Linton Planner, Kevin Brogan, Erna Kimberley, Trevor Dolphin
Sitting: Penny Stitson

Top Row: Erna Kimberley, Ray Garland, Doug Kimberley, Jimmy Fuller, Linton Planner, Geoff Atkinson, Stuart Delahay, Penny Bowler, Beverley Robinson, Martin Dolphin, Carol Ely, Greg McMaster, John Barnes, John Lambert. Bill Ley (Coach).

2nd Row: John Kimberley, Ken Gray, Ian James, Neil Ashmead, Kevin Brogan, Paul Hilditch, Val Humphries, Jill Kitney, Isabel Mc Laren, Jenny James, Julie Graham, Cheryl Pattle, Lois Gust, Gabby Sova, Lorraine Dupree, Otto Ford (Fook) {Coach}

The Country Swimming Championships were held at Mildura in 1965. The Gippsland District Swimming Association chartered two planes to fly Gippsland Swimmers to Mildura (from Essendon). The plane in the picture carried the Yallourn Team and Officials and some of the Morwell Team and Officials. The picture was taken by a Mildura Newspaper when we arrived at Mildura Airport. The people in the picture are:

On the Steps (Top to Bottom): Erna Kimberley, Penny Stitson, Kay Bussell (obscured), Marcia McDonald, Judy McDonald

Showing the staff hostel, recently planted deciduous street trees and neat gardens.

Yallourn State Schools’ Mothers' Clubs delegates photographed at the VFMC quarterly conference in Melbourne in 1954.
From left : Mrs F. White (Yallourn), Mrs A. Davis (Yallourn) and Mrs F. M. Millett (Leongatha South).
Note: ‘VFMC’ is an acronym for Victorian Federation of Mothers Clubs.
Source: ‘Weekly Times’ Wednesday 16 June 1954. Page 52

My dad Benjamin Rupert Harrison was the coach of this team

Latrobe Valley Soccer Federation League Winners - Yallourn
Austin Lynch presenting the trophy.

Metropolitan Division 2 Champions and Federation Cup Winners 1970
Back: John Szabo, Peter Romyn, George Plavins, Vlad Samson, Frank Mehaffey, Brian Anderson
Front: Colin Ellis, Linton Planner, Billy Hodgson, Jos Adrichen, Roy Hainsworth, Johnny Poelsma, Alec Bathgate (Coach)
Small Boy at front: Mark Anderson

Men at Back: Alan Ellis, Frank MacKeown, Mick Duke
Boys: ? , Sean MacKeown, Gary Young, Trevor McStay

Both my brothers were noted in this photo - Ralph Harrison and Neil Harrison