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Run by Mrs Blenkiron

A bus ticket from Yallourn Passenger Service PTY LTD, Prop. A.Maxwell. Date unknown but dad said that Mr Maxwell started the very first passenger service for Yallourn residents and was eventually taken over by Latrobe Valley Bus Service? I don't know what the "Renwick Pride" refers to at the bottom of the ticket?? I'm guessing that the 1920's truck/bus pictured at the Yallourn Railway Station in one of the pix may have been Mr Mawell's? I wonder if people can access or do a search of old companies that were PTY LTD?
Kindly sent in by Wayne Tangey (YTS 1966)

Bus Timetable Cover

St Johns A Grade Premiers 1951-52

Back Row: Tom Hayes, Hugh Crawley, Ian McArthur, P.Watkinson, Harold Beney, Alf Crowe, Jack Thorpe, Neil Hustwaite, Bill Jackson
Front Seated: Jimmy Donnet, Charlie Trethowan (Furture GM), Harold Westgarth VC, Norm Lelievre C, Vic Crowe, B.Kerr, Hans Frumberger.
Umpires: J.Huxtable & T.Oswald

Working on the foundations of the boiler house of Yallourn C Power Station - January 1951

Mr Cook was the first jeweller to have his own shop in Yallourn when a few were built in I think the early fifties, maybe late forties, between the National Bank and the picture theatre. Prior to that time, there were very few shops other than the SEC run General Store.

I am not sure that my watch came in this box which my parents gave me, I think for my 18th birthday. As it was a surprise, Mr Cook sent a selection into the National Bank (where I worked) on the pretense of it being for someone else, so I chose it not knowing it would be for me.

Source: Prue McGoldrick "Yallourn Was" book

Canadian diving champion, Lynda Adams, who visited Yallourn in 1938.

Source: British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame (Vancouver)

Back Row: Jack Gloz, Ron Boyd, Bill Collins, Doc Andrew, Peter Gregson, Alex McAllister, ... , Jim Irving
Front Row: George Toye, ... , Ernie Trusler, Cliff Cleverly, Ted Belcher, ... , ...

Back Row: Cliff Cleverly, Teddy Belcher, B Guest, Dr Jim Andrew, G Anderson, Jock McKean, Jim Reilly, J Gloz
Front Row: George Toy, Billy Kerr, C Hill, R Friday, Johnny McMahon, Jack Carter, Jim Irving

Carmello & Gianna Bajada on arrival in Yallourn - 1955

Source: State Library of Victoria : b 35313

Looking to Catholic Church...Ian Pringle

Yallourn Newborough Cenotaph - Boolarra Ave, Newborough

Described in the Morwell Advertiser, 16 April 1953, page 1, as ‘...a simple Grecian column depicting on its front face the figure of a kneeling woman placing a wreath on the stone of remembrance and typifying sorrowing motherhood’.

Photo shows Monash Sq, Rockmans Crossing + State Bank

Back Row: Dennis Ross, Chas Karpinski, Colin Luxford, Ray Grieve, John 'Jumbo' James, David Glover, Alan Huntley, Ron Marslen
Front Row: Mrs Ina Roberts (Scorer), Jack Dykes, Norm Byrne (c), Allan Mathieson, Ken Lofts (Manager), Colin MacGregor, Mr Bob MacGregor (Selector)

Here is a newspaper item showing how I arrived in Australia and was destined to call Yallourn home.

Circa 1928 - a 1500 ton coal bunker under construction at Yallourn A Station
Source: State Library of Victoria H200918/457

Yallourn 'B' power station boiler house firing floor, circa 1938.
Source: Museum Victoria. Reg: MM 0106176

Looking down Coach Rd - Strzelecki Rd has gone off to the right out of photo shot. Westbrook Rd going on right and Moondarra Place going to the left.

Murray Macrae (right), Coal Production Superintendent Headquarters (previously Coal Production Superintendent Yallourn) with a group of former Yallourn colleagues;

(from left) Keith Taylor, Mechanical Maintenance Superintendent; Jack Weir, Mechanical Foreman and Eric Webster, Mechanical Foreman

Coal Train at Open Cut

Col Benson and Bill Godfrey 1950. YFC stalwart, Col Benson, was a devoted servant of the YFC and a source of great club spirit and kinship. Bill coached Yallourn in 1946 and was regarded as a leading player in local football in that era.

Col Benson and some of the young Blues players.
L-R: Col Benson, Don Palmer (coach), Bill Attard, Linton Planner, Barry Mathieson, ? , Gavin Smith, Ron McGregor.

Mid 1960s

Start of the Cork Scramble at Yallourn Tech Swimming Sports - mid 1960s

This is the corner of Maryvale Road and Outlook Road. Maryvale ran along the bottom of the High School. Kerrs lived in the house on the left and behind them was the Police station.

CORONATION BALL Tuesday 21st May 1935
Winning Queen JOYCE WITHERS (ARMY & NAVY)
Presumably the Army & Navy sponsored my mother and I would suggest it was taken in one of the halls.
My mother would have been 15 at the time. To her right and slightly above looks to be her sister VERNA WITHERS nee Puckeridge and immediately to her right is her youngest sister ENA WITHERS nee Butler. The man in uniform on the right was probably the local policeman.

Yallourn CWA Ladies taken in Kernot Hall - early-mid 1960s

L-R Standing: ? , ? , Doreen Tormey, Lillian Beck, ? , ? , Barbara White, ? , Ron Austin, ? , Dawn Croydon, Hilda McGregor, ? , ? , Nan Huxtable’s sister, Margaret Smith, Nan Huxtable, Marj Brogan, Prue McGoldrick, Mrs Warren, Beryl Kimberley, Marion Muller-Kobold, Amy Tibballs, Mrs Matheson, ? , ? , ?, ? , Hazel Habich, Mrs Orr, ? , ? , ? , ?

L-R Seated: Vi McColl, Elsie Heskey, Meg Webb, ? , ? , Nan Humphrey, ? , ? , Grace Scott, Lucy Turner

The Photo has the following written in Pencil on the back -"Cracks Eastern End No2 Level -Opened to 3.00 metres 2nd Feb 1950'

George Bates trying out the pitch in Yallourn North - 1978

Ian, Joan, Sheryl & Russell Curtis - Xmas 1967 - in front yard of 64 Fairfield Ave at their grandfather's house (Leslie Curtis)

Mrs Taylor holding dress, Mrs Kerr holding the sleeve and Barbara Coyle centre right

PIC OF DAD BREWER long standing president of the YFC

Dad Brewer's funeral cortege travelling down Southway in March 1948. Over 72 vehicles followed the hearse to the Yallourn Cemetery. His grave is in the first row inside the gates.

David Apps - approx 1960 - on the slopes of Mt Erica sitting in an ex-stock car with a 38 Ford V8 motor cobbled to a truck gearbox. It was used for a bit of sport on the forest tracks in the area. This was probably the last time it was driven as the engine had seized coming back down the track, the car had spun three times when the back wheels locked and that is a look of relief on the driver's face since, most surprisingly, the car stayed on the road.

Debutant Ball - Helen McAdam (small girl)

Debutant Ball - Helen McAdam and Jill Spencer (hidden) - possibly 1961

The taller flower girl is my sister Gail Wilson (nee Harrison)

Back Row: Stephen Reed, ?, Ken Stewart, Colin Broberg, Andy Smee (Morwell), Ian Campbell (Morwell), David Ferguson, ?, ?, Martin Junker(Morwell)
Middle Row: Dale Hawken, Rod Hawken, Roslyn Risinich, Penny Bowler, Robyn Kenny, Norm Risinich, Sherri McKean, Betty Ashton, ? , John Tulloch
Front Row: Claire Sagar, Vicki Cullen, Carole Sagar, ?, Tom Jensen, Margaret Jensen, Sandra Prust, ?, Bev Walton, Lee Cooper

Held at Kernot Hall

The last 3 houses standing in Yallourn at the end of 1981 were demolished by using them as a training unit for the National Safety Council of Australia. Could the house with the red roof be 23 Latrobe Avenue? Does anyone recognise the house or the palm tree in the background?

The last 3 houses standing in Yallourn at the end of 1981 were demolished by using them as a training unit for the National Safety Council of Australia. Could the house with the red roof be 23 Latrobe Avenue? Does anyone recognise the house or the palm tree in the background?

The last 3 houses standing in Yallourn at the end of 1981 were demolished by using them as a training unit for the National Safety Council of Australia. Could the house with the red roof be 23 Latrobe Avenue? Does anyone recognise the house or the palm tree in the background?

Demolition of Briquette Factory from the McGoldrick Collection

This is the Demolition of the Yallourn Power Station E2 boiler house. The Demolition was kept quiet so that the public would not gather on mass to watch.
I think the authorities were concerned about the large amount of Asbestos that would escape into the air.

Sorry about the blurry photo, the explosion scared the bejesus out of me.

Notice the coal dust and Asbestos dust from the demolition. The dust erupted up into the air and traveled towards the crowd, who quickly departed.

Standing L-R: Bill Bowler, Arch Sneddon, Don Malpass
Seated L-R: Lila Sneddon, Betty Malpass, Alice Harrison, Rupert Harrison, ? , Alan Mitchell, ? , ? , Molly Bowler

A Yallourn connection….Irene Donnet in action in 1936.
Source: ‘Advocate’ (Burnie -Tasmania) February 26th 1936 Page: 7.

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