In 1949 the Progress Bus Company was contracted to take students, who were attending Essendon High and Essendon Technical Schools as well as non-government schools, from Sunbury to Essendon. The company later transported people employed at the Asylum and Greenvale Sanatorium to and from Essendon and Melbourne. Essendon High and Essendon Technical were the closest schools where Sunbury students could receive post-primary education at the time.A non-digital black and white photograph of a 1950s passenger bus with the word 'Progress' showing above the windscreen. The bus is parked in a commercial lot.progress bus company, sunbury asylum, greenvale sanatorium, essendon

Stapled illustrated booklet, Black and white photograph of the author as a young woman on front cover. Title and author's name in black print above and below sketch of building and trees in backgroundnon-fictionThis story is about the author starting off her studies at University only to become ill with pleurisy, which did not improve, the result was a break in University studies, bed rest and a referral to the part-time Director of Tuberculosis in Victoria. The author describes the different phases of her illness, her life at Greenvale Sanatorium, her friendships with other patients, her family and the subsequent treatment in the 1940's for people suffering with TB. Greenvale was a close knit environment, everyone was fighting to stay alive, but some didn't.tuberculosis, tuberculosis-medical treatment