Black and white photo of school children at Kangaroo Flat. Children dressed in casual clothes. Photograph taken outside with some children seated on grass. Children's names on attachment.kangaroo flat school children, black and white photo

Bendigo Advertiser article, 1st August ,1995, titled 'Old Mines pose risk to children'. Children are playing in former mine sites, entering shafts and stopes that pose a dangerous threat to their health. Some sites have low oxygen levels in the stopes and there can be large 'amounts of hydrogen sulphide, or 'rotten egg gas'. Black and white photo of Peter Bentley, Mining and Extractive Industries Co-ordinator for DNRE, inspecting the Old McDuff mine site in Eaglehawk.gold mining, bendigo, sandra burns, mineral education, spring gully primary school

Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2000. Institution: State School No. 981, Chapel Street, Kangaroo Flat. The eastern end of the school was opened in 1870 and led by John Hamilton (teacher), his wife Mabel (assistant) and Emma McColough (pupil teacher). Within a fortnight there were 130 children. The first additions to the school were made in 1873, following the proclamation of the Education Act. Other additions were made in 1875 and 1883 and a general remodelling took place in 1916. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

The Norman Oliver collection. Norman Oliver was three times Mayor of Bendigo - 1950-51, 1964-65, 1970-71. Fourteen pages of typed notes headed Mayoral Report 15 Aug 1951. In the format he used for his talks on 3BO 'The Mayor Speaks'. Corrections in blue ink. Topics include : a proposed association of urban municipalities, Crown lands regulations, the School for Deaf Children, taxis, Kangaroo Flat bus route, the cattle markets, sewerage extensions, the Library, and Education Week.bendigo, council, speech notes, norman joseph oliver , councillor norman oliver. mayor of bendigo. 3bo 'the mayor speaks'. school for deaf children.

Two photographs (proofs 85A and 86B) 85A Group of 41 children in front of a timber building. Two boys in the front row are holding a blackboard with the words: Kangaroo Flat, School 981, Gr. V - VIII, 1938. 86B, Eleven students and two teachers in front of a timber building, A blackboard at the front has the words: SS 1236, Woodstock West, 22 - 6 - 20.person, group, school, kangaroo flat primary school, woodstock west primary school