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Published on 15/05/2022 in Photo
Peter Butcher, Reg Penkethman, Lois Gust, Barry Steffen, Charlie Bajada, Kathleen Pulis
Published on 30/03/2022 in Document
1972 - YALLOURN LIBRARY WEEK DISPLAY
Photograph caption: All municipal libraries in Gippsland marked Australian Library Week with displays; and the Yallourn Library was no exception. Pictured here in the Yallourn display in the window of the Briquette Sales Centre Latrobe Valley Department, Librarian Bruce Ponting puts the finishing touches to the display watched by his assistants, Helen Ashmore and Beryl Nelson.
Published on 22/02/2022 in Document
1955 - Yallourn High School Choir
The Yallourn High School Choir won widespread acclaim and was admired by the township for the role it played in the cultural activities of the town. During the life of the school, hundreds of boys and girls joined the choir; and it seems to have been a lasting memory for many YHS students. For example, Judith Dolan (Dickson), YHS 1954, wrote…
Published on 02/02/2022 in Document
Caption text for photo above: Some members of Yallourn cricket team, who are taking part in the series of matches for country and city teams, at St. Kilda during the Easter holidays. Source: ‘The Age’ April 18th 1938 Page: 4.
IMAGES OF YALLOURN - 1939
BACKGROUND TO THE FORMATION OF THE YALLOURN WOMEN’S CRICKET TEAM
Published on 16/01/2022 in Document
2011 - Julie George (Francis) at Grytviken, South Georgia
The above photograph is of well-known former Yallourn resident (and current website administrator of Virtual Yallourn and secretary of the Yallourn Association) Julie George, lowering a burial casket into an interment plot at Grytviken, South Georgia in 2011. The history related to this photograph makes fascinating reading; and the following link tells the background of Julie’s memorable journey in 2011.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16165494
Published on 15/12/2021 in Document
This photograph of Father Christmas, distributing presents to children, was taken at Yallourn SEC’s Main Office Social Club’s picnic at Cowwarr Weir in 1977. SEC picnics and gatherings for employees’ families were a customary part of the work place Christmas festivities.
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Published on 28/11/2021 in Document
Photo - Charlie Turner and the Yallourn Band in later years
Yallourn - Year by Year - 1930
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 unique township of Yallourn ‘took root, prospered, bloomed, withered and died’….
Published on 10/11/2021 in Document
IMAGES OF YALLOURN – November 1932 – David Monash Bennett
DAVID MONASH BENNETT, grandson of the late Sir John Monash, unveiled the memorial to his grandfather erected at Yallourn, Victoria, by employees of the Electricity Commission. The ceremony took place on Sunday, November 27.
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Published on 13/10/2021 in Document
Yallourn Theatre, Victoria by Gerry Kennedy
Kindly permitted to be republished by Cinema and Theatre Historical Society Inc - www.caths.org.au
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