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Clunes MuseumPhotograph - PHOTOGRAPH KNITTING MILL
... 136 knitting mill... KNITTING MILL WAS ORIGINAL THE SOUTH CLUNES SCHOOL. SITUATED ...CLUNES KNITTING MILL WAS ORIGINAL THE SOUTH CLUNES SCHOOL. SITUATED ON TALBOT ROAD CLUNES - LATER SCHOOL CLOSED AND PUPILS WERE TRANSFERRED TO NORTH CLUNES SCHOOL..1 BLACK AND WHITE POSTCARD PHOTOGRAPH OF CLUNES KNITTING MILL AND EMPLOYEES STANDING IN FRONT OF BUILDING .2 REPRODUCTION COPY OF THE ABOVE PRINTED ON MATTE PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER.1 Hand written in blue ink on reverse; Clunes knitting mill employees, by May Grant also printed circular stamp in purple ink "Printed by H. Maddicks Daylesford"photographs, schools, 136 knitting mill, south clunes school -
Clunes MuseumPhotograph - PHOTOGRAPH PRIMARY SCHOOL
PHOTOGRAPH OF PUPILS AT SOUTH CLUNES SCHOOL NO. 136. WHICH CLOSED IN 1923. LATER THE BUILDING BECAME A KNITTING MILL, AND IS NOW A BOTTLE MUSEUM.SEPIA PHOTOGRAPH OF CLUNES PRIMARY SCHOOL, MOUNTED ON CARDBOARD, WHEN IT WAS SOUTH CLUNES SCHOOL. LATER IT BECAME A KNITTING MILL.Hand written on paper and glued to the cardboard mounting; Horace Williams, Evelyn Dowielocal history, photographs, schools 136, primary school -
Clunes MuseumSign - DISPLAY PANEL, 2000
COPIES OF DISPLAY PANELS DONATED TO THE PEOPLE OF CLUNES BY THE HUGH WILLIAMSON FOUNDATION.INTERPRETIVE DISPLAY PANEL DEPICTING HISTORY OF SCHOOL DAYS IN CLUNES. WOODEN DISPLAY PANEL AND LAMINATED COPY.SCHOOL DAYS CHILDREN OF EARLY GOLDFIELD TOWNS WERE TAUGHT IN TENT SCHOOLS.THESE SCHOOLS WERE EASILY MOVED TO THE SITE OF THE LATEST GOLDRUSH. WITH GREATER COMMUNITY STABILITY PERMANENT SCHOOLS WERE ESTABLISHED. CLUNES STATE SCHOOL NO. 1552 WAS OPENED IN JULY 1875 ON LAND DONATED BY RIVETT H. BLAND, MANAGER OF THE PORT PHILIP GOLD MINING CO. SHORTLY BEFORE WORLD WAR ONE, THIS SCHOOL BECAME VICTORIA,S THIRD HIGHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. TODAY IT IS STILL USED TO EDUCATE THE CHILDREN OF CLUNES STATE SCHOOL NO. 136 WAS BUILT IN 1881 ON THE SITE OF AN EARLIER TEMPORARY SCHOOL THAT WAS BUILT IN 1857. THE DESIGN WAS FIRST USED AT HORSHAM. AND INCLUDES AN EARLY EXAMPLE OF A LARGE SCHOOL VERANDAH. IN 1892 THIS SCHOOL AMALGAMATED WITH STATE SCHOOL NO. 1552 AND WAS USED AS THE INFANT SCHOOL. IT CLOSED ITS DOORS IN 1922 AND WAS LATER USED AS A MILL FOR THE CLUNES KNITTING AND MAUFACTURING CO. LTD. IT NOW HOUSES THE CLUNES BOTTLE MUSEUM THE CLUNES CATHOLIC SCHOOL OPENED IN 1875 AND CLOSED IN 1926 THE LATEST EDUCATIONAL ASSET AT CLUNES IS A CAMPUS OF WESLEY COLLEGE. BLENDINGHISTORIC BUILDINGS AND MODERN ARCHITECTURE THE CAMPUS IS SITUATED IN SERVICE STREETlocal history, civic momentoes, presentations, williamson, hugh foundation -
Clunes MuseumPhotograph
PHOTOGRAPH OF SOUTH CLUNES SCHOOL NO. 136. BAILEY STREET CLUNES. AFTER THE SCHOOL CLOSED CLUNES INTERKNIT HOSIERY CO ESTABLISHED A KNITTING MILL. FOLLOWING ITS CLOSURE THE CLUNES BOTTLE MUSEUM WAS ESTABISHEDCOLOURED PHOTOGRAPH OF THE SOUTH CLUNES SCHOOLlocal history, photography, photographs, schools 136
