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John Norden turns 21

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Malcolm Gibson YHS 1962 wrote - “the photograph of one of the Yallourn fountains certainly brings back memories. I don't recall specific dates, circumstances etc but I recall two occasions when detergent was used in the fountain, one of these occasions also involved a quantity of potassium permanganate (Condies crystals) which turned the frothy water purple. As to who the perpetrators were is anyone's guess, but I would say that the list of suspects would be fairly large and would probably not hold any surprises to those of us from that era. Good harmless fun eh?

Ted Ebsworth YTS 1942 read the death notice of Charles Beanland in July 2001 and it brought back a lot of memories, as Charles was the Principal of Yallourn Tech School and his son, Graham, was in Ted's class. In 1939, Ted and family moved from the settlement called the South Camp to Newborough (Moe East). Riding our bikes to school was more fun than hard yakka. There were always chases through the bush tracks and animals to chase, especially the wild sheep. One hot summer morning, someone suggested we go for a skinny dip down the Latrobe River, which we often did.

LANDSLIDE AT YALLOURN This article was published in Benalla’s ‘The North Eastern Ensign’ more than eighty years ago. The extract reported on the death of a worker at the Yallourn mine in 1927. The tragedy received coverage in numerous newspapers of that time; and the man’s death again underlines the ever-present dangers faced by all workers in the mining industry. An unusual aspect of the sad tale at Yallourn was the role played by the local school children in assisting the recovery workers at the scene of the disaster.

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Karen Findlay - 1965

Hi - my name is Jim Donnet. My parents Jean and George arrived in Yallourn in the early thirties, dad was a electrician at the briquette factory and then in the workshops down near the power station. They lived in the married quarters for a while and then with the Lobley's before moving into 65 Parkside.