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21 Church Street Yallourn / Stringers Road, Toongabbie

Very happy memories. All the children in the neighbourhood playing cricket in the street on summer evenings....Monika

Neighbours: 82 - Vivien; 80 - Ebsworth. Adams across the road.

YALLOURN FOOTBALL CLUB 1945-65 - MURRAY FRENCH

Families play a central role in all country clubs and sporting groups. Yallourn was no exception. By reading the match reports and team lists, over the 55 years of the club’s existence, it is apparent that Yallourn was a ‘family concern.’

Centre Hall, on the opposite side of the foyer to Kernot Hall, was previously Yallourn's first Fire Station until 1948. A facelift later, it became Centre Hall. In its life, it also was used as an air-raid precautions control centre during the 1935-1945 War. The building later became used primarily as a meeting place. Also hired by the local Orchestral Society, for sittings of the local Court of Petty Sessions and occasionally for small wedding receptions.

Kernot Hall was a prominent landmark in the Yallourn Town Square from April 1959, built on the site which was previously used by the Casualty Clearing Station and a temporary Library. It was hired both by local community organisations and other Latrobe Valley bodies for functions such as cabaret balls, concerts, conventions, wedding receptions, exhibitions, public meetings, union meetings and Yallourn Old Girls' Association reunions. It had also been hired for television shows and wrestling matches. Some Yallourn High School assemblies were also held here.

The Yallourn Library began in 1946 in the former Casualty Clearing Station which was in a hut near the Health Centre. Volunteer staff were on hand from 3pm to 6pm and 7pm to 10pm to handle the meagre stock, largely provided by public donations of books and money. A new library was opened on 16 November 1956 on the opposite side of the town square, on the site between the National Bank and the picture theatre, previously occupied by temporary shops and a bus shelter.

This is a higher resolution image of the photo taken inside the old theatre during its demolition .

YALLOURN FOOTBALL CLUB 1945-66

50 YEARS AGO~ 1963 GRANT COWLEY

Grant Cowley won the coveted 1963 Best and Fairest Trophy for Yallourn Football Club. Grant was born in New Zealand in 1941. He grew up in Penrose, a suburb of Auckland, on the North Island. As a boy, Grant loved the outdoors and was always happy playing rugby and cricket. (Grant was the captain of his junior Rugby team - Te Papapa).

LIVE WIRE - 2 February, 1949: The Yallourn Kindergarten will re-open on Tuesday, February 8 but to allow individual attention for each incoming child, the dates of commencement have been staggered. The following are the 55 oldest pre-school children who will attend kindergarten on each morning from 9am - 12 noon during 1949. The dates on which they are to attend are:-

Tuesday, 8 Feb: Meryl Baker Heather Smith Dawn Smith Lance White Ian Hill Margaret Williams Colin Webster Bronwyn Curtis Coral James Bruce Lewis Ronald Fisher Glenys Williams Peter Sutton Francis White

Another version of the YTS badge circa 1950. It was sewn on the front of the cap. Actual size is 3 x 3.5 cm. "Knowledge is Power" inscription on scroll...Barry Osborne

Margaret Jones wrote: I lived at 6 Broadway West in a cream stucco house, trimmed with dark green, along with my parents Claude & Leila and sisters Beverley and Patricia Jones. We went to Yallourn in 1938 where dad took up a position at Yallourn Technical School teaching Mechanical Drawing, Maths & Science.

Our lives were worry-free, sunny happy days, being able to do and go where we wanted, without a care in the world. My friends were Norma Davey, Peggy Thorpe, Glenda Dunstan & Ruth Ray. We would go bike riding for the day to Morwell Bridge - such happy days!

HISTORIC PRINTS AVAILABLE: prints from the original pen drawings of 12 Yallourn buildings made on site in 1980 by Yallourn resident Graham Longmore.

The prints are available in two sets of six at $80 per set plus P&P if applicable. Set One : Post Office, Shopping Centre, High School, Presbyterian Church, Methodist Hall, 5 Maiden St Set Two : Picture Theatre, National Bank, Health Centre, Catholic Church, Church of England, 58 Narracan Ave

We have just watched the latetest up-dated DVD produced by Mary Wilton. For two older YOGA's with grandchildren who have licenses ( never was too sure about the correct spelling when at YHS) to drive, It has brought back many happy memories of my time at YHS and Maxine's time as a Yallourn girl. Mary and ( Mike Hamilton) are to be congratulated on a recording of our time that will be available to the next generation of our great gandchildren. Now one for Kevin Brogan on the DVD who are the old couple who we are sure went to mass and the girl who worked at Mrs Browns pub

Article from "Link" Issue 51, Nov 2011 - information from Morwell Historical Society: "Flax and Fire proved a Fatal Mix In 1941, a flax mill was built in Morwell to supply raw material for webbing belts used by the military. Flax supplied by local farms and those from further afield was transported by road or rail to be processed at the factory in Latrobe Road. Flax is oily and needs to be dried so stacks of raw flax were piled high around the mill before being laid out in paddocks to dry.

1978 - Last Year of Yallourn Primary School Back Row: Ann Harwood (McAlister), Barbara McIntyre, Christine Smith, Lorraine Vanyai? with child Front Row: ? , Alan Cox, Melinda Cox, Tim Scholz, ? , ? , Peter Collins