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My father had a shoe repair business in the middle shop which was in Garden Street next to the methodist church The first shop I can't remember what they sold but I can remember one year they had it full of christmas trees. The shop on the other side of my father's shop was the ESand A bank for some time. The shop on the corner over the lane was Pettigrew's Garage. The brickwork on the extreme left were the garages behind Rockman's behind the stop sign is the RSL. My father was there from 1953 to 1956 then sold to Zenon Miltiados and went back to the SEC for a more comfortable life.

This postcard is rare: Yallourn Fire Brigade Queen Carnival??? Greetings from the Township Queen???
A Fire Brigade Hall next to the SSB! Yallourn General Store under construction,all in the 1920's no doubt.
Can anyone throw any light on this?

Any enlightenment to this photo would be much appreciated - date unknown.

Group of workers at the South Camp at Yallourn - approx. 1923. This is the first camp known as the South Camp and was for men only. In the early 1950's

Any idea of names or event for this photo?

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Group unknown - hill in background is now day car park.

H W Devine Removalist - truck painted by Trevor McColl's dad.

In 1966, hailstorm hit town ~ hail stones as big as golf balls – roofs were punctured, motor cars dented, windows smashed, foliage shredded.

Backrow (L-R): Ken Mooney, Bob Duff, Mike Chopping, Geoff Carland, Kevin Foote, Lonnie Selimovic
Front Row(L-R): David Horne, Ian (Pidge) Burrows, Kevin Brogan, Ray Male, Kevin (Ned) Scott, Russell Aspinall

Hernes Oak Primary School Rod Hall at back Mrs Sullivan from HO on left and Maxine Parr front row middle

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Newspaper article

Refer Murray Lobley's Episode 2 - History of Yallourn Soccer Club 1920s-1930s

Beloved shirt of Wendy Hunter

Honor Thwaites (wife of Michael Thwaites) in 1980s
Source: Anglican News in 3D - August 2013

Lt Horace Lynch was demobilised from the Australian Army in January 1920, after serving in Gallipoli & the Western Front for 4 years. He returned home to Broken Hill, where he completed his Engineering Apprentice ship with Zinc Corporation.

Invitation to Moe Hospital Opening Ceremony - 1966

Sister Lorna Comport

Chris Vincent in front

Mid-Late 1970s

Photo of District Nurse, Elaine Hayes and a student nurse, visiting a patient's farmhouse home. Estimated 1975 after hospital had moved to Ollerton Avenue, Moe. The District Nursing Service was founded in 1967 and cared for discharged patients in their homes. Area covered included Yallourn, Moe and out to Willow Grove and Narracan.

Opening of Hospital by Sir John Monash 13 January 1929

Opening of Hospital by Sir John Monash on 13 January 1929

Level crossing for pedestrians to Briquette Depot

This is the actual house that was at 2 Ridgeway West Street Yallourn in the sixties

Possibly Banksia Street

House removal - Driffield Rd

House removal

Yallourn Golds V Morwell

Source: NLA 205621676 ‘The Age’ May 1st 1939 Page: 4

Caption: MARRIED WORKERS live under a commission housing scheme at Yallourn. Mr and Mrs J.C. Sagar and their daughter Margaret relax by the fire.

SOURCE: NLA 22328283 ‘THE ARGUS’ THURSDAY 29th AUGUST 1946 PAGE : 8

Title: First payday on brown coal mine works area.

Caption: Shows seven men, all smiling, some holding pay envelopes.

THE HORSES MUST BE FED , EVEN DURING A STRIKE

The caption below the photograph says:
‘A load of fodder on the way to the hill camp at Yallourn.’

Source: ‘Weekly Times’ Saturday 25 December 1926. Page: 38

1929 - OPENING DAY - YALLOURN HOSPITAL

Source: State Library of Victoria Ref: H2009 18/256

Caption: A Herald reader's amusing snapshot forwarded from Yallourn of an elephant belonging to a travelling circus dislodging a motor car which had been accidentally driven into a deep concrete drain around the local cricket oval. The help of the elephant was enlisted when other cars had failed to do the job!
Source: ‘Herald’ Monday 11 April 1932. Page 1

AT THE SEYMOUR CAMP.
Caption: Yallourn members of the 37/52nd Battalion preparing for parade…

Source: NLA: 11021812 ‘THE ARGUS’ MARCH 18th 1936 PAGE 22

Caption: The mysteries of a modern high-power electric switchboard being explained to a class at the Yallourn Technical School by the Principal (Mr. H. Beanland).

SOURCE: NLA: 20695587 -‘THE AGE’ TUESDAY 7th JUNE 1938 PAGE: 15.

BACK TO THE FUTURE - YALLOURN WOMEN’S CRICKET TEAM - 1938 - 81 YEARS AGO

Caption under first photo: GIRL CRICKETERS at St. Kilda today: Miss D. Williams (Ballarat) in action against Yallourn. The wicket-keeper is Miss L. Nicholl.
Source: ‘The Herald’ Tuesday 19 April 1938. Page 24.
Note: Miss Nicholl (perhaps incorrect spelling in the above photograph- see below) was the captain of the Yallourn team in 1938.

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

L. Hillis ( Yallourn) reaching forward for a low forehand stroke during the country week matches at Kooyong yesterday.

SOURCE: NLA 205298353 ‘THE AGE’ TUESDAY MAY 4th 1941 PAGE:10

Caption: ‘As the officer escort for Japanese military and naval commanders at the official surrender ceremony at Torokina, New Guinea on September 8th 1945.’

This rarely seen photograph is part of an article in a ‘Contact’ magazine related to the life of Brigadier John Field. Brigadier Field was the General Superintendent of the Latrobe Valley Region of the SECV from 1951-1964 and a resident of Yallourn (at 23 Reservoir Road) for many years.

To read more about Brigadier John Field and the ‘Yallourn connection’:

Caption: YALLOURN SCOUTS: Lady Baden Powell visited Yallourn on February 13th and inspected local scouts (top left), cubs (lower left )…

Source: ‘Weekly Times’ Wednesday 25 February 1948, page 5

1949 - Yallourn Taxi Collision

"The driver and 5 passengers in this Yallourn taxi escaped serious injury when it crashed into a low trailer loaded with a bulldozer on the Princes Highway at Officer early on Saturday."

Source: NLA: 22725887 THE ARGUS MONDAY 2nd MAY 1949 PAGE: 3

Caption: ALL THE WAY FROM SCOTLAND. Mr. and Mrs. John Knox, of Glasgow, pictured on the liner Ormonde, which arrived at Station Pier yesterday. They are going with their sons, Ronald and Ian, to Yallourn.

Source: NLA: 187643307 ‘THE AGE’ SATURDAY 15th APRIL 1950 PAGE: 4

Allan Schroeder, of Yallourn, was the surprise 1950 King’s Prize winner, a dramatic shoot-off with Percy Pavey.
Picture above shows him on the mound and at right, he is carried off in the traditional chair to the acclaim of the other shooters.

SOURCE: NLA 22815528 ‘THE ARGUS’ SATURDAY 11TH MARCH 1950 PAGE 45.

Source: ‘Weekly Times’   November 7th 1951.  Page:  19

With the first light snow of the Korean winter as a background, Pte J.B. Whitehouse of Campsie, New South Wales, Pte J. Waller of Bondi Junction, New South Wales and L/Cpl. R. Efford of Yallourn, Victoria, warm up at their tiny fire in Korea.
Source: NLA: 194972789 ‘Daily Examiner’ (Grafton NSW) Monday 24th December 1951 Page: 1.

Yallourn’s got the cup the city couldn't keep ...and they're the first to take it up-country. Yallourn, Tuesday Victory Ball night at St. John's Hall last night! Yallourn Soccer Club was celebrating its Victorian Junior Amateur Football Association premiership. They're the first country team lo carry the cup away from Melbourne.

SOURCE : NLA :23086403 ‘THE ARGUS’ WEDNESDAY 17th OCTOBER 1951 PAGE 5