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Anne Marie Harrington attended Yallourn High School & trained to become a registed nurse at Yallourn Hospital. She spent many years at Central Gippsland Hospital Sale, before retiring in 2010. Anne passed away 13-12-2022 RIP Anne.

LVCH Nurses one Christmas in Yallourn (circa 1965)

Yallourn - Year by Year - 1933 - Robert Dixon above

The first sod in the Victorian Government’s ambitious scheme, to generate electricity at Yallourn, was turned more than a century ago (sometime around 1920); and for the next six decades the township of Yallourn ‘took root, bloomed, withered and died’….

This photograph is said to have been taken in 1922. The first school at Yallourn was a weatherboard cottage at 4 Hillside. Source: ‘Virtual Yallourn’

1922 - Yallourn State School

NOTES ON EARLY DAYS OF SCHOOLING AT YALLOURN 

Back Row:  Ian Brown, Richard Christie, Clive Scott, Tony Smith, Brian Shaw, Frank Shine, Eddie Wissmer, Tony Rozenstein, Walter Zajarski, Terry Sullivan, Alan LeLivre, Eddie Blythe, Neville Douglas, ? , Neil Clancy, Svetle Petrovic, Ron Cook, Maurice English, Roger Vale, Wayne Mooney, David Hebb

Middle Row: Peter Ganz, Richard Kurec, Arkie Ivanic, Katrina Anderson, Diane Edwards, June Morgan, Barbara Malek, Janice Cole, John Thorpe, John Walsh, Murray Champion

Front Row: Maureen Kitney, Eunice Hill, Monika Karpinski, Penny Heath, Thelma Daniels, Elizabeth Armstrong, Greta Kunca, Olga Tabaczynski, Jillian Dolphin, Judi Vincent

1981 - Time Capsule from St John's Church 1923

This photograph shows Rev. Blair Grace, of St Aidan’s Anglican Church in Newborough, holding one of the items placed in a time capsule and buried at the St John’s Church in Yallourn in 1923.

The contents of the time capsule included a selection of documents related to the Church in that era. Among the capsule’s contents were a letter, an advertisement and various handwritten notes by the Parish Minister at that time - Rev. Dicker.

1955 - LVFL GRAND FINAL:   YALLOURN  v  SALE

INTRODUCTION

As the 2022 AFL Finals approach, the above press release may prove of interest to football followers and former supporters of Yallourn Football Club.  

The first sod in the Victorian Government’s ambitious scheme, to generate electricity at Yallourn, was turned more than a century ago (sometime around 1920); and for the next six decades the township of Yallourn ‘took root, bloomed, withered and died’….

Title:  Yallourn-Railway Station staff with local Victorian Railway employees group on steam locomotive 131. 12-7-1948.

Source: State Library of Victoria. Reference:  H2009.18/234

Pictured - Yallourn Guides 1948

YALLOURN GUIDES, REVEREND PERCY DICKER & ARBOR DAY - 1925 -1965

This photograph, of the early years of Yallourn Guides, is part of a collection held by the Anglican Diocese of Gippsland.

"Jack's a Legend in his time" - a video by The Local Footy Show 2022

Click the link below to see the story of Jack Huxtable

https://www.facebook.com/TheLocalFootyShow/videos/568929247983897

You may also like to read a much earlier story we have on this website about Jack - click on the link below:

http://www.virtualyallourn.com/stories/yallourn-football-club-1945-65-jack-huxtable-1952-office-bearers-les-jones-reg-baker-roger

Yallourn - Year by Year - 1931

The first sod in the Victorian Government’s ambitious scheme, to generate electricity at Yallourn, was turned more than a century ago (sometime around 1920); and for the next six decades the township of Yallourn ‘took root, bloomed, withered and died’….

IMAGES OF YALLOURN

1956 - ‘LITTLE OLYMPICS’  CARNIVAL AT  THE  YALLOURN OVAL

Julie posted this photograph on the Virtual Yallourn website in October 2010; and the coloured banners, summer dress styles, massive crowd and the tree lined background suggest that the photograph was probably taken at the Little Olympics at Yallourn in 1956.

Ann McAlister, Merlene Wilkinson

Cousins - John Crane, Colin Crane

Heather Norden, Norm Hall, Jan Hall

Graham Dowers, David McLennan

Lexine Baillie, Ketty Kelava, Lidia Ingravalle

Susanne Berg, Anne Gray

Norm Hall