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Published on 19/09/2013 in Story, Query, Note, Movies
LAURIE SHIPP In only three seasons with Yallourn Football Club, former North Melbourne ruckman, Laurie Shipp, took local football by storm and created a lasting impression as one of the Blues’ best ruckmen of all time.
Although not well known in Yallourn Football Club’s history, Laurie had actually worked in the Yallourn Open Cut as a Cadet Engineer before he returned to the city in 1949 to sign with North Melbourne. Laurie remembers…
Published on 19/09/2013 in Photo
YFC in 1955 - Laurie Shipp can be seen 4th from the left in the back row. Yallourn's other great ruckman of that era, Bruce Knight, is next to Laurie.
Published on 19/09/2013 in Photo
YFC stars Gerald Marchesi & Laurie Shipp pictured in this photograph of North Melbourne FC in 1949. Gerald coached YFC in 1955 & 1956. Gerald is 4th from the left in the back row and Laurie is 7th from the left in the back row.
Published on 19/09/2013 in Photo
Yallourn's Vic Lawrence and Laurie Shipp at North Melbourne. Vic later coached YFC in 1958 and 1959
Published on 17/09/2013 in Story, Query, Note, Movies
1934 YALLOURN OPEN CUT FLOOD
On Thursday, 29 November 1934, very heavy rain fell in Melbourne and moved to the east. There the depression seemed to stick and rain fell from midday Thursday to Saturday morning over the Latrobe Valley catchment – 700 square miles in which four streams unite in a short distance – in amounts that ranged from 10 to 19½ inches.