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First Bazaar 21 October 1922

First brick house built on corner of Maiden & Garden Streets - handmade bricks - Sept 1922

Bus Escapades En Route to Trafalgar – 1950s (circa 1990) A young ‘gentleman’ called John, whose surname shall remain a secret, was walking with his sister to catch a school bus when he and his sister had a disagreement. It must have been quite a disagreement because his sister ‘hitched’ him to the overhead bridge by his braces (braces were a common method of keeping ones trousers up in the 1950 era).

I posted a yarn a couple of days ago about my father Wilhelmus Johannes "Bill" Titulaer, and who came to work in Yallourn in about 1950?, in the SEC office/ showroom. This additional story is really a bit "peripheral" (on my knowledge of it) DIRECTLY to Yallourn, however there will be others, perhaps even RELATIONS, who will know "more" about this.

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

Biography of C H Beanland ‘A Lifetime in Technical Education’ (Chapter 6) : Yallourn – Busy Tears in a Young School

I had chosen not to continue in the position of Acting Principal at Stawell Technical College beyond June 1932 at which time I was transferred as Acting Principal to the Technical School at Yallourn, where we rented an S.E.C. house in Ridgeway West. The previous Principal at Yallourn had asked to be relieved on the grounds of ill health and because he considered that the college had no future. The future was to prove how incorrect his expectation was.

Date unknown - 50s?

40 Strzelecki Road from bottom of Coach Road ... Rob Morgan

Immediate Neighbours: Robertson (Tech School Teacher) and O'Neil Nearby Neighbours: Miss Bailey

Went to YPS till boarding school in NSW for 5 years with annual holidays back home. Enjoyed the nearby bush very much and wood chopping competitions. Good friends from school (Greenwood, Jackson, Cook)....very happy boyhood...John Collins

My father was Wilhelmus Johannes Titulaer, from Venlo, in the South of Holland. Like a lot of other "migrants", he came out to Australia after the war, and settled in Melbourne. I believe he actually initially travelled from Holland to Indonesia with the Dutch Army, but was "demobbed" ("demobilised") in Australia, and he had met a man who worked at "The Argus" newspaper, and who said to dad that if he came back from Holland, that he would help him find a job.