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Yallourn Football Club, circa 1953

Standing (Players L-R) Frank Kelly (playing coach) Kevin Fanning Bill White Keith/Ken McColl Bill Jackson Bruce Knight John Paice / Price John Mann Daryl Knight, Lloyd Brewer, Unknown ? Unknown Stan Brown Milton Kingsley Bernie Nairn /Roy Whelan

Squatting (Players) Claude (Bubby) Whitborne Col Broberg 2 kids Alan McIntyre Jim Shaw Rob Bennett George Bates George Botten

Photograph and names provided by Lauris Brill, nee Stanger and William (Bill) Jackson (to the best of their memory)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Wkcaol4lU

This is a 2 mins 41 secs movie taken during a school excursion to the Yallourn Powerhouse circa 1951. My grandfather Thomas Stanger worked as a Guide for the SEC between 1946 until his retirement in 1963. During that time he conducted many tours of the Powerhouse and Briqutte Works.

Thomas can be briefly seen at approximately 2 min and 08 secs into the movie

Thomas was employed by the SEC from 1922 to 1963 Thomas was initially employed as a cook at the Eastern Hostel and later as a telfer driver and general labourer before becoming a Guide. During that time Thomas lived at 11 Maryvale Road and 44 Banksia Street.

This school photograph was taken circa 1938

Raymond Thomas Stanger was approximately 12 years of age and can be seen in the front row of boys, directly behind the girl with pigtails.

Photograph provided by Lauris Brill, nee Stanger

This school photograph was taken circa 1938

Raymond Thomas Stanger was approximately 12 years of age and can be seen in the front row of boys, directly behind the girl with pigtails.

Photograph provided by Lauris Brill, nee Stanger

Central Gippsland Representative Football Team - taken circa 1950s (year to be confirmed)

Photo provided by Lauris Brill, nee Stanger

1950 Yallourn Football Club (Left to Right) Back Row: Gerald Knight, Les Jones (coach); Tom Piggott, Lloyd Brewer Middle Row: Bill Shaw (reserve); Rex Pettit (umpire); Des Madden; Simon Shaw; Fred Byron; Bruce Knight; Bernie Nairn; Allan McIntyre; Jack Taylor; Roy Whelan; unknown umpire. Front Row: unknown; Keith Squires; Ken Parry; Stan Brown; Cliff Williamson; Jim Shaw; George Botten (reserve) Mascot: unknown

Names listed by Lauris Brill, nee Stanger

Frank Mounter was one of the first Electrical Engineers in Yallourm. He started work at Yallourn in 1922, and he and his wife Olive were one of the first to occupy a house in Maiden Street. They then moved to their permanent home at the bottom of Outlook Rd, behind the Police Station. Family history says he knew Sir John Monash quite well. Being a senior engineer he certainly would have met and worked with Monash, but how well they knew each other is unknown. Frank remained in Yallourn until 1933, when he took up the position of Powerstation Superintendant for Ballarat Tramways, which was then owned and run by the SEC.

Photo of crowd waiting to view the royal party visiting Yallourn on 3 March 1954

Yallourn - Year by Year - 1934

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’….

Sandra Prust, John Crane, Carole Sagar

Dennis Ross, Max Fox, John Lawson, Robert Smith, Marj Smith, Dot Hanson, Mavis Webb, ? , Helen Gregson

Chris Francis, Julie Francis

Barbara Webster, Barbara Bingham, Kay Spurrier, Barry Gust, Dorothy Edwards

Irene Rickman, John Crane

Julie Austin, Steve Cox, Julie Lacey, Bernie Austin, Allison McDonald

Jan Daddo, Jen Henson, Gillian Vanyai, Stephen Vanyai, Eva Zehethofer

Jim Marshall, Lesley Green, Colin Nash, Brian Kilday, Sheila Martin, Jean Humphreys, David Adams