This building has been demolished, and the site is now the Sunshine Gardens Care Community Nursing Home.sunshine technical school, h.v. mckay trade building, morris street, sunshine

Used at School of mines and industries Ballarat As H.V. McKay's Sunshine Harvester business expanded there was a requirement for a school to train the company's apprentices. In 1911, H.V. McKay wrote to the Victoria Cabinet offering 2,000 pounds and 4 1/2 acres of land in Derby Rd for a technical school, On the 7th July 1913, the new Sunshine Technical School opened with a wooded administration building with six class rooms and a large galvanised iron workshop for the trade apprentices. Mr George Baxter was appointed principal with assistant teachers, A.J. Dunlop (Maths & English), W.W. Anderson (Art) & H.B. Ernest (Maths & Science). Seventy students were enrolled in the first year of which 44 were apprentices from the Harvester Works. During the First World War Years (1914 - 1918) there was a difficulties with staffing and enrollments. The school was also used to provide vocational training for wounded returned soldiers. In 1919 during the great influenza epidemic the school was used as a hospital. ​Light blue soft covered booklet of 60 pages with information about office bearers, staff, objects of the school, prizes and scholarships, examinations, time tables, courses, and subjects. It has photographs and advertising.sunshine, technical school, sunshine technical school, prospectus, hugh victor mckay, r.m. lambert, george mckay, d.b. ferguson, samuel mckay, george bult, ralph mckay, george butlin, george baxter, f.s. midgley, j.b. gray, w. kerr, a.j. dunlop, h. ernst, w.w. anderson, f. cleary, school councillors, staff, blacksmithing, carpentry, fitting and turning, moulding, sheet metal, mathematis, english, science, art, 1914, h v mckay, sunshine harvester, 2000 pounds and land donated, wounded returned soldiers, 1919 ued as hospital, influenza epidemic

The Sunshine Technical School trade workshop was constructed in 1913. It was a foundational part of Victoria’s early technical education system and was closely tied to the industrial growth of Sunshine and the legacy of H.V. McKay’s Harvester Works. - Opened: 7 July 1913, following H.V. McKay’s donation of £2,000 and 4.5 acres on Derby Road. - Facilities: The school featured a timber administration building with six classrooms and a large, galvanized iron workshop specifically built for trade apprentices. - Purpose: Designed to train apprentices for McKay’s Sunshine Harvester Works, reflecting the industrial needs of the time. - Initial Enrollment: 70 students, including 44 apprentices from the Harvester Works.Workshop Significance - The workshop was central to the school’s mission: “mente et manibus” — “with mind and with hands.” - It provided hands-on training in mechanical and industrial trades, aligning with the Education Act 1910’s push for secondary technical education. - This made Sunshine one of the first three technical schools established under the Act, and the longest-running of them, operating until 1991. Trade Workshop Built 1913sunshine technical school, h.v. mckay, sunshine harvester works

These photographs provide a visual record of assorted buildings, street views, and notable locations throughout Sunshine in 2026.This collection of photographs preserves a visual record of Sunshine 2010.5607.01 - Anderson Rd Sunshine - Chaplin Reserve 2010.JPG 5607.02 - Derby Rd looking North - West across Hampshire Rd 2010.JPG 5607.03 - Derby Rd looking South - West across Hampshire Rd 2010.JPG 5607.04 - Derby Rd Sunshine - Sunshine Secondary College (Old Girls School) 2010 Photo 01.JPG 5607.05 - Derby Rd Sunshine - Sunshine Secondary College (Old Girls School) 2010 Photo 02.JPG 5607.06 - Derby Rd Sunshine - Sunshine Technical College 2010 (Fromer Trade Wing).JPG 5607.07 - Devonshire Rd 2 Sunshine - H. V. McKay Office Building 2010 Photo 01.JPG 5607.08 - Devonshire Rd 3 Sunshine - Mercy Palliative Care 2010.JPG 5607.09 - H. V. McKay Pedestrian Bridge 2010 Photo 01.JPG 5607.10 - H. V. McKay Pedestrian Bridge 2010 Photo 02.JPG 5607.11 - H.V. McKay Memorial Gardens 2010 Photo 01.JPG 5607.12 - H.V. McKay Memorial Gardens 2010 Photo 02.JPG 5607.13 - Hampshire Rd looking South - West from Bennett Place 2010.JPG 5607.14 - Hampshire Rd Sunshine - Rear of Shops 265 - 277 2010 Photo 02.JPG 5607.15 - Hampshire Rd Sunshine - Sunshine Library 2010 (Now Demolished).JPG 5607.16 - Hampshire Road Sunshine - R. T. Pollard Gardens 2010.JPG 5607.17 - Harvester Rd 80B Sunshine - Visy Care Hub 2010 Photo 03.JPG 5607.18 - Harvester Rd 80B Sunshine - Visy Care Hub 2010 Photo 04.JPG 5607.19 - Presbyterian Church 2010 Photo 01.JPG 5607.20 - Presbyterian Church 2010 Photo 04.JPG 5607.21 - Presbyterian Church 2010 Photo 05.JPG anderson road, derby road, devonshire road, harvester road, chaplin reserve, sunshine secondary college, h. v. mckay office, mercy palliative care, h. v. mckay pedestrian bridge, h.v. mckay memorial gardens, sunshine technical school, sunshine presbyterian church

Harvester Technical College - P.O. Box 165, Sunshine North, Victoria, 3020. Contains 65 colour photographs.harvester technical college, techncial school, suffolk road, sunshine north

A collection of documents from John Kemndall A.M. (Former Director Museum Victoria)1/ Bring back the H.V. Smithy Barclay Reserve Talmage Street Sunshine 10 October 2001 Address by John Kendall A.M.|2/ From Log Smithy to Millionaire. Notes on Hugh Victor McKay and the stripper-harvester|3/ The Sunshine Harvester Works in 1884. Black & white of the Smithy on the Devonshire Rd Offices site|4/ Plans of the Smithy construction|5/ Trade Mark "Sunshine" Certificate of Registration of a trade mark with the Patent, Trade Marks and Designs Offices Canberra 1907|6/ Request for transfer of original building from Museum Victoria to Sunshine was refused on 23/12/1998 & McKay's Massey Ferguson Site hearing on the demolishment of the substation site with developer to contribute $100,000 for interpretive centre on the site|7/ References for information on H.V. McKaysmithy, blacksmith, barclay reserve, albion