1/ Star Newspaper 17th October 2006 - Time's up for the school (The search for the school's missing time capsule)sunshine north primary school, primary school, suffolk road, sunshine north

Open Education - Its Development in the Primary Schools of the Sunshine Inspectorate October 1972 Education Department Victoria|Participating schools include;|Albion North Primary School|Avondale Primary School|Deer Park Primary School|St. Albans Primary School|St. Albans East Primary School|St. Albans Height Primary School|St. Albans North Primary School|Sunshine North Primary Schooleducation

Sunshine East Primary School opened on 5th February 1952 on Duke Street, Sunshine. The school was built to relieve pressure on the Sunshine Primary School and the Sunshine North Primary School as Sunshine’s population exploded after WWII, driven by the post war migrant boom which caused a rapidly growing population growth in the Sunshine and Braybrook districts. Many of these new migrants were staying in the nearby post war Housing Commission estates in Sunshine and Braybrook. In the 2000’s, the district saw a falling enrolment in student numbers across Sunshine’s older suburbs, and this led to school consolidations. In 2009, the school merged with the Braybrook Primary School and Sunvale Primary School forming the new school Sunshine Harvester Primary School, The Sunshine East site ceased operation on the 31st December 2008 and the site was later cleared with all original’s buildings being demolished. The new Sunshine Harvester Primary School was then built on the site.sunshine east primary school, duke street, sunshine

List of former and current schools in the City of Brimbank. This includes churches in the former City of Sunshine and City of Keilor.This report records current and former schools in the City of Brimbank as of 15th March 2026.Name Albanvale Primary School Albion Primary School No 4265 Albion State School No 4265 Albion Church of England School Albion Common School No 6 Ardeer High School Ardeer Primary School No 4848 Ardeer South Primary School Sunshine College Sunshine Technical School Annex Braybrook College Braybrook High School Braybrook Private School(s) Braybrook Secondary College Braybrook State School No 1102 Caroline Chisholm Catholic College Christ The King College Christ The King Primary School Dinjerra Primary School Footscray College of TAFE (Braybrook Training Centre) Rosamond School St. Johns College Tottenham Crossing Primary Tottenham North State School No 4703 Tottenham Technical School Braybrook Junction State School / Braybrook South State School Braybrook South Private School Brooklyn State School No 4710 Cairnlea Park Primary School No 1434 Deer Park North Primary School Deer Park Primary School No 1434 Deer Park Secondary College Deer Park West Primary School No 5032 Derrimut on Kororoit Creek State School No 1434 Kororoit State School No 1434 St. Peters Chanel’s Primary School Victorian University Secondary College – Junior Campus Copperfield College Mac Kellar Primary School Derrimut Church of England School No 192 Truganina Common School No 192 Western Institute & University of Melbourne Kealba High School Kealba Secondary College St. Albans Park High School Calder Rise Primary School Keilor Church of England School No 1578 Keilor Primary School Keilor State School No 1578 St. Augustine’s Primary School Keilor Downs College Keilor Views Primary School Monmia Primary School Keilor Park Primary School Copperfield College Kings Park Primary School Movelle Primary School Resurrection Catholic School Footscray North Special School No 4792 Maidstone Common School No 394 Maidstone National School No 394 Maidstone Primary School no 4658 Maidstone Private School (Mrs Douglas's School) Maidstone Private School No 791 (Miss Webb's School) Maidstone State School Baltara School Maribyrnong College Maribyrnong High School Maribyrnong Primary School No 3736 (1st Site) Maribyrnong Primary School No 3736 (2nd Site) Maribyrnong Private School Raleigh's Punt Church of England School St. Margaret’s Primary School Kororoit School No 1933 New Cambridge Common School No 919 Rockbank State School No 919 Brimbank College Catholic Regional College St. Albans Holy Eucharist Primary School Jackson Specialist School Jamieson Park Secondary College Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School St. Albans East Primary School No 4741 St. Albans Heights Primary School No 4948 St. Albans High School St. Albans Meadows Primary School St. Albans North Primary School No 4811 St. Albans Primary School No 2969 St. Albans Secondary College St. Albans South Primary School St. Albans Technical School Stevensville Primary School No 5047 University Park Primary School Victoria University St. Albans Campus Victorian University Secondary College – Senior Campus Western Institute Footscray College of TAFE Sunshine Campus Sunshine College Sunshine East Primary School No 4645 Sunshine Harvester Primary School Sunshine Primary School Sunshine State School Sunshine Technical School Sunvale Primary School No 4818 Albion North Primary School No 4855 Furlong Park School for Deaf Children St. Bernadette’s Primary School Sunshine Christian School Sunshine High School Sunshine North Girls Technical School Sunshine North Primary School No 4745 Sunshine North Technical School Victoria University Sunshine Campus Glengala Primary School Marian College Sirus College - Sunshine Ibrahim Dellal Campus St. Pauls Primary School Sunshine College – West Campus Sunshine Heights Primary School No 4744 Sunshine Secondary School – West Campus Sunshine Special Developmental School Sunshine West High School Sunshine West Primary School Catholic Regional College Sydenham Copperfield College Emmaus Catholic Primary School Keilor Road Station No 1641 Sydenham - Hillside Primary School Sydenham Primary School Sydenham State School Sydenham West Primary School Taylor Lakes Primary School Taylors Lakes Secondary College Tottenham State School No 4707 Truganina Common School No 192 Truganina Common School No 192 school, schools

Brimbank’s heritage‑listed properties are protected because they demonstrate important aspects of the area’s history — industrial innovation, early settlement, worker housing, civic development, and significant Aboriginal cultural landscapes. This document is an extract from the "Collection Document Project" prepared for Mr. Frank Ford, Sunshine & District Historical Society (See Catalogue No 5756). The document lists heritages place names, Brimbank Heritage Overlay Numbers and Victorian Heritage Register Numbers. Notes: 1. This list does not include heritage listed places from the former City of Sunshine currently in the City of Footscray. 2. This list does not include heritage listed places in St. Albans. 3. The date of this list is C2009.Heritage Listed Reference Numbers: Sunshine - Deer Park area 5741 - Sunshine And Deer Park Heritage Listed Reference Numbers Page 1.jpg Heritage Precincts Commonwealth Munitions Housing Estate BCC H019 Concrete Housing Estate Leith Avenue Sunshine BCC H020 ICI Residential Area Deer Park BCC H021 Sunshine Commercial Heritage Area BCC H022 McKay Housing Estate Durham Road BCC H023 McKay Housing Estate King Edward Avenue BCC H024 Railway Estate Sunshine BCC H025 War Service Homes Heritage Area Sunshine BCC H026 Heritage Place Massey Ferguson Complex Devonshire Road Sunshine BCC H03 VH H0667 John Darling & Son Flour Mill 74 Sydney Street Albion BCC H04 VH H0827 Rail Bridge (Albion Viaduct) Over Maribyrnong River BCC H05 VH H1197 Black Powder Mill Parklea Avenue And Grassy Point Road Cairnlea BCC H06 VH H2029 Foxley Lodge Farm And Its Drystone Walls 472A Boundary Road Derrimut BCC H08 1 Corio Steet Sunshine BCC H09 H.V. McKay Memorial Gardens BCC H010 VH 1953 H.V. McKay Offices 2 Devonshire Road Sunshine BCC H010 VH H1953 Main Outfall Sewer Brimbank (Brooklyn) BCC H013 VH H1932 Mt. Derrimut Homestead, Its Drystone Walls And Associated Buildings Including The Meteorological Centre Mt. Derrimut Road Derrimut BCC H017 5741 - Sunshine And Deer Park Heritage Listed Reference Numbers Page 2.jpg Heritage Place (Cont) Albion VR DC Substation Talmage Street Albion BCC H028 Pig And Calf Market 55 Market Road Brooklyn BCC H029 Monsanto Chemicals Huntsman Chemical Co 455 Somerville Road Brooklyn BCC H030 Deer Park Explosive Factories Complex Off Ballarat Road Deer Park BCC H032 Hume And Hovell Cairn Cnr Station Road And Ballarat Road Deer Park BCC H034 Sunshine Signal Box Off Hampshire Road BCC H039 Black Arch Rail Bridge Sunshine Road Sunshine BCC H040 Sugar Gum Row Talmage Street Albion BCC H042 Sunshine Advocate Office 11 - 15 Sun Crescent Sunshine BCC H051 H.V. McKay Memorial Gates Anderson Road Sunshine BCC H053 H.V. McKay Memorial Presbyterian Church Anderson Road Sunshine BCC H054 Sam McKay House And Garden 147 Anderson Road Sunshine BCC H055 Former Sunshine Technical School Derby Road Sunshine BCC H056 Former Sunshine Girls Technical School Derby Road Sunshine BCC H057 Pedestrian Footbridge Over Railway 1 Devonshire Road Sunshine BCC H058 House At 48 Station Place Sunshine BCC H061 ANZ Bank Former ES&A Bank 115 Durham Road Sunshine BCC H063 Sunshine Metropolitan Fire Station And Flats 330 Hampshire Road Sunshine BCC H064 Derrimut Hotel 132 Durham Road Sunshine BCC H065 St. Mark's Anglican Church 49 Suns Cresent Sunshine BCC H066 Robinson House 33 Sun Cresent Sunshine BCC H067 St. Theresa Catholic Church & School 26 Adelaide Street Albion BCC H070 5741 - Sunshine And Deer Park Heritage Listed Reference Numbers Page 3.jpg Heritage Place (Cont) Curacloe BCC H073 Former Wunderlich Now West End Market 47 - 49 McIntyre Road Sunshine North BCC H073 Selwyn Park Albion BCC H074 Sunshine Baptist Church 42 Ridley Street & 16 Sydney Street Albion BCC H075 Cameron House & Dairy BCC H076 Houses & Trees 22 - 24 Talmage Street Albion BCC H077 Ford (Solomon Ford) Burke Road To Canning Street Avondale Heights BCC H079 Lions House Of Sunshine 8 Watt Street Sunshine BCC H080 Guiding Star Hotel 700 Geelong Road Brooklyn BCC H081 Hunt Club Hotel 775 Ballarat Road Deer Park BCC H082 Deer Park Hotel 760 Ballarat Road Deer Park BCC H083 Deer Park Primary School No 1434 812 Ballarat Road Deer Park BCC H084 Opie's Dairy 2 - 4 Egan Street Deer Park BCC H086 St. John's Anglican Church & Hall 2 - 4 Miles Street Deer Park BCC H087 Neale Road Ford 192 Neale Road Deer Park BCC H088 Deer Park Hall 50 Station Road Deer Park BCC H089 Sunshine Market 13 - 19 City Place Sunshine BCC H091 Methodist Church & Hall 32 Devonshire Road Sunshine BCC H0105 Macedonian Community Centre 45 Fourth Avenue Sunshine BCC H0106 Hannah McKay House 145 Anderson Road Albion BCC H0107 Chemist Shop 234 Hampshire Road Sunshine BCC H0108 Sunshine Municipal Offices 6 - 18 Alexandra Avenue Sunshine BCC H0109 Sunshine Primary School 3113 111 Derby Road Sunshine BCC H0110 Standard Steel 12 - 16 Market Road Sunshine BCC H0111 Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church 93 Monash Street Sunshine BCC H0113 Parsons House 114 Moris Street Sunshine BCC H0114 Our Lady's School Station Place Monash Street Sunshine BCC H0115 Palmas 2 Tyler Street Sunshine BCC H0116 St. Andrews Greek Orthodox Church (Greek Cypriot) 14 Simmie Street Sunshine West BCC H0119 5741 - Sunshine And Deer Park Heritage Listed Reference Numbers Page 4.jpg Heritage Place (Cont) William McKay House 150 Durham Road Sunshine BCC H0121 Albion Primary School No 4265 61 - 81 Adelaide Street Albion BCC H0122 Ralph's Meatworks 690 Geelong Road Brooklyn BCC H0123 Former Church of Christ 81 - 83 Hampshire Road Sunshine BCC H0125 Former Masonic Lodge No 226 93 Hampshire Road Sunshine BCC H0126 Sunshine Picture Theatre 126 - 128 Hampshire Road Sunshine BCC H0127 Shops 193 - 199 Hampshire Road Sunshine BCC H0130 Ukrainian Catholic Church 2 Holmes Street Ardeer BCC H0132 Shops 207 - 219 Hampshire Road Sunshine BCC H0133 Victorian Row House 25 Benjamin Street Sunshine BCC H0134 Victorian Row House 29 Benjamin Street Sunshine BCC H0135 Victorian Row House 31 Benjamin Street Sunshine BCC H0136 Victorian Row House 33 Benjamin Street Sunshine BCC H0137 Victorian Row House 35 Benjamin Street Sunshine BCC H0138 50 Forrest Street Albion BCC H0139

Braybrook Junction State School was the original name for what later became Sunshine State School and then Sunshine Primary School (School No. 3113), one of the earliest formal educational institutions in the district. The school opened in 1891 on the corner of Hampshire Road and Morris Street, but enrolments grew so quickly that the building became inadequate within months. The first head teacher was Mr Thomas Flynn. Later in 1891, the school was relocated to the Braybrook Public Hall, at the north‑east corner of Hampshire Road & Benjamin Street. In 1892, the Education Department selected a rented site in Derby Road and the school moved there on 30th September 1892. The buildings consisted of two portable classrooms joined by a porch—a common solution for fast‑growing industrial suburbs.This list details the names of children of many of the early settlers of Braybrook Junction.Adam, Mary  Adam, Thomas  Allen, Hugh  Batchelor, Jessie  Batchelor, John  Batchelor, Margaret  Beck, John  Beck, Leonard  Bostock, Kate  Brown, Elise  Byrne, Elizabeth  Byrne, Margaret  Byrne, Mary  Catherall, Alice  Catherall, Lily  Chivers, Amy  Chivers, Emily  Davey, Albert  Davey, John  Davey, Mary  Davey, William  Dickson, Herbert  Dickson, Matilda  Ellis, ?  Ellis, ?  Ellis, ?  Ellis, ?  Flynn, John  Flynn, Rosetta Flynn, Thomas Eugene (Head Teacher) Gamble, Ethel  Gamble, Herbert  Gamble, Lily  Girling, George  Graf, Ruby  Grant, Grace  Grant, William  Hamilton, Ronald  Hamilton, Thomas  Hardwick, Gerald  Hardwick, Guy  Heinrichs, Albert  Heinrichs, Archie  Ingle, Mary  Jones, David  Jones, Louisa  Jones, Victor  Laing, Alice  Laing, William  Lancashire, Edith  Lancashire, John  Lancashire, Lavinia  Lohse, Ellen  Lovelock, Ellen  McKeirney, Bella  Montell, Ernest  O'Shannassy, Mary  Patterson, Edward  Patterson, William  Paul, Bella  Porter, Frederick  Porter, Leonard  Price, Kate  Price, William  Reade, Alfred  Reade, Florence  Readle, Wesley  Richardson, Alex  Richardson, George  Richardson, Lily  Richardson, Violet  Rose, James  Scott, Aiston  Scott, Walter  Shorten, Elizabeth  Shorten, James  Shorten, Jeremiah  Shorten, Mary  Standish, Margaret  Torr, William  Ungle, Frederick  Weinsberg, Samuel  Weinsberg, William  braybrook junction state school, hampshire road, sunshine, thomas flynn, john flynn

This Netball uniform from circa 1986 was worn by a girl named Rebecca when she attended the Tottenham North Primary School. Tottenham North Primary School was opened on 29 May 1953 and was built on a South Road, Braybrook site purchased in 1929. After a fire in February 1961 the pupils were sent to the Powell and Curtin Street schools in Yarraville, and to the Maidstone and Sunshine East schools. The new building was officially opened on 22 August 1962 by A. McDonell, Director of Education, and it had sixteen classrooms, an art/craft room, and an assembly hall. Sporting achievements by the pupils included the 1963 football premiership and the 1968 cricket premiership. Over the years it has been called Tottenham Primary, Tottenham Crossing Primary, and Maidstone Primary. The different names resulted because of mergers with other local primary schools as the number of primary aged children in the Braybrook and Tottenham area changed. The school on South Road is now named Dinjerra Primary School. Dinjerra supposedly means 'out west' in the dialect of the original indigenous people of the area. Dinjerra Primary School is now the only neighbourhood government primary school in Braybrook Tottenham. The above information was sourced and compiled from: 1. 'Vision and Realisation - A Centenary History of State Education in Victoria - Volume 3', Education Department of Victoria 1973. 2. The Dinjerra Principal's website article at: http://www.dinjerra.vic.edu.au/91/Message-from-the-Principal.The netball uniform serves as a historic reminder that a school named Tottenham North Primary School once existed. The uniform also provides us with information of the colours used on these types of sports uniforms, and of the design of the School Logo.Two items of Netball Uniform. (a) Skirt - Maroon coloured wrap around sports skirt. (b) T-shirt - Yellow, Size 14 'Ryder' brand children's T-shirt, with maroon coloured triangular shaped School Logo printed on the front.TNPS. TOTTENHAM NORTH P.S. 4703 - (Printed inside triangle)sports uniform, netball skirt, netball t-shirt, tottenham north primary school, south road braybrook, tottenham primary school, maidstone primary school, tottenham crossing school, dinjerra primary school, tottenham north state school, state school 4703

In 2012, the Sunshine & District Historical Society hosted a demonstration day for Albion North Primary School students at the H.V. Smithy Barclay Reserve in Albion, allowing them to experience the art of blacksmithing firsthand.Demonstration of Blacksmithy 24/4/2012h.v. mckay smithy, barclay reserve, king edward avenue, albion, albion north primary school, primary school

After a post war migration population boom in Sunshine North and surrounding areas, the Albion North State School (Now Albion North Primary School) opened on the 3rd July 1962.This Commentative Coffee Cup celebrates 60 years since the school opened in 1962.Aluminum insulated coffee cup and lid with text printed on the sideAlbion North Primary School 1962 - 2022albion north primary school, furlong road, sunshine north, albion north state school

After a post war migration population boom in Sunshine North and surrounding areas, the Albion North State School (Now Albion North Primary School) opened on the 3rd July 1962.This Commentative Key Ring celebrates 60 years since the school opened in 1962.Metal key ring and tag with textAlbion North Primary School 1962 - 2022albion north primary school, furlong road, sunshine north, albion north state school

Tottenham North State School opened in 1953 on South Road, Braybrook and operated for 40 years before closing in 1993. The school was built to serve the rapidly growing post war housing estates of Braybrook, Tottenham, and Maidstone. The school relieved pressure on the nearby Footscray West State School and Tottenham State School (later Tottenham Primary School). In 1970, the Victorian Education Department standardised naming with the term “State School” being replaced by “Primary School”, thus the school became Tottenham North Primary School. The school later merged with Tottenham Primary School to form Tottenham Crossing Primary School, and in the 2010’s eventually became part of Dinjerra Primary School.5336.01 - Tottenham North State School - Library Lunch Time Book Loans Photo 01.jpg 5336.02 - Tottenham North State School - Children Using Library Catalogue Photo 02.jpg 5336.03 - Tottenham North State School - Children In Library Photo 03.jpgtottenham state school, south road, braybrook

Braybrook State School opened in 1873, replacing the old Albion No. 6 School that was located in Duke Street, Albion (Now Sunshine North). The school grew from a small bluestone rural school into one of the largest primary schools in Melbourne’s West, peaking at 811 students in 1960, before closing in 2008 and being demolished after a 2010 arson attack. In 1970, the school’s official name changed from Braybrook State School to Braybrook Primary School, following statewide naming reforms. In 2007, the school merged with Sunshine East Primary School and Sunvale Primary School to form Sunshine Harvester Primary School. In 2008, Braybrook Primary School officially closed and in 2009, the Braybrook campus ceased operation as part of Sunshine Harvester Primary School. In 2010, the former school buildings were destroyed by arson. The site buildings were rebuilt and today, they are occupied by the Rosamond School (specialist school), which has relocated from Rosamond Road, Maidstone.These photographs are of the Braybrook State School brick building that was built in 1925, replacing the original 1873 bluestone schoolhouse.braybrook state school, ballarat road, braybrook

Braybrook State School opened in 1873, replacing the old Albion No. 6 School that was located in Duke Street, Albion (Now Sunshine North). The school grew from a small bluestone rural school into one of the largest primary schools in Melbourne’s West, peaking at 811 students in 1960, before closing in 2008 and being demolished after a 2010 arson attack. In 1970, the school’s official name changed from Braybrook State School to Braybrook Primary School, following statewide naming reforms. In 2007, the school merged with Sunshine East Primary School and Sunvale Primary School to form Sunshine Harvester Primary School. In 2008, Braybrook Primary School officially closed and in 2009, the Braybrook campus ceased operation as part of Sunshine Harvester Primary School. In 2010, the former school buildings were destroyed by arson. The site buildings were rebuilt and today, they are occupied by the Rosamond School (specialist school), which has relocated from Rosamond Road, Maidstone.These photographs are rare examples of a school's caretaker cottage which were generally located on the school grounds.braybrook state school, ballarat road, braybrook

These photographs provide a visual record of assorted buildings, street views, and notable locations throughout Albion in 2021.This photograph collection documents Albion in 2021.5569.01 - Ballarat Rd 559 Albion - United Petroleum 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.02 - Ballarat Rd 527 Albion - A.R.C. 2021 Photo 02.JPG 5569.03 - Ballarat Rd 527 Albion - A.R.C. 2021 Photo 03.JPG 5569.04 - Adelaide St 70 Albion 2021 Photo 04.JPG 5569.05 - Adelaide St No 62 Albion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.06 - Adelaide St No 62 Albion 2021 Photo 02.JPG 5569.07 - Sydney St 16 Albion - Albion Baptist Church 2021 Photo 02.JPG 5569.08 - Sydney St 16 Albion - Albion Baptist Church 2021 Photo 03.JPG 5569.09 - Sydney St 16 Albion - Albion Baptist Church 2021 Photo 04.JPG 5569.10 - Sydney St 16 Albion - Albion Baptist Church 2021 Photo 05.JPG 5569.11 - Sydney St 16 Albion - Albion Baptist Church 2021 Photo 06.JPG 5569.12 - Selwyn St 61A Albion - Albion Community House & Garden 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.13 - Selwyn St 61A Albion - Albion Community House & Garden 2021 Photo 02.JPG 5569.14 - Selwyn St 61A Albion - Albion Community House & Garden 2021 Photo 03.JPG 5569.15 - Adelaide Street 63 Albion - Albion Primary School 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.16 - Albion Railway Station 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.17 - Albion Railway Station 2021 Photo 02.JPG 5569.18 - Selwyn Park - Albion Tennis Courts 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.19 - Hulett St 3 Albion - Allen Foundary Hulett St Albion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.20 - Hulett St 3 Albion - Allen Foundary Hulett St Albion 2021 Photo 02.JPG 5569.21 - Ballarat Rd 507 2021 Photo 02.JPG 5569.22 - Ballarat Rd 509 - 511 Albion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.23 - Ballarat Rd 509 - 511 Albion 2021 Photo 02.JPG 5569.24 - Ballarat Rd 582 Albion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.25 - Kororoit Creek Albion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.26 - Kororoit Creek Albion 2021 Photo 05.JPG 5569.27 - Bill Goldsworthy Scoreboard Sunshine Baseball Club Barclay Reserve Albion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.28 - Ian Anderson Scoreboard Sunshine Baseball Club Barclay Reserve Albion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.29 - Derrimut St 2 Albion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.30 - Derrimut St 41 Albion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.31 - Derrimut St 61 Albion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.32 - Hulett St Albion - Energy Park 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.33 - Hulett St Albion - Energy Park 2021 Photo 02.JPG 5569.34 - Hulett St Albion - Energy Park 2021 Photo 03.JPG 5569.35 - Coolamon St ReserveAlbion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.36 - Ferguson St 9 Albion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.37 - John Darling Flour Mills 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.38 - John Darling Flour Mills 2021 Photo 02.JPG 5569.39 - Kamarooka St Reserve 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.40 - King Edward Ave 14 Albion.JPG 5569.41 - King Edward Ave 27 - Donald Ross Court Flats Albion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.42 - Methodist Church Tennis Courts Derrimut St Albion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.43 - Ballarat Rd 547 Albion - North Cyprus Turkish Community Centre of Victoria 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.44 - Ballarat Rd 547 Albion - North Cyprus Turkish Community Centre of Victoria 2021 Photo 03.JPG 5569.45 - Sydney St 70 - 72 Albion - P.M.G. Depot 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.46 - Ridley St 4 Albion - House Under Redevelopment 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.47 - Rocks Kororoit St South Side off Forrest St 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.48 - Selwyn Park 2021 Photo 07.JPG 5569.49 - Selwyn Park 2021 Photo 08.JPG 5569.50 - Ballarat Rd 576 Albion St. Albans Train Red Rattler Photo 01.JPG 5569.51 - Sunshine Baseball Club Barclay Reserve Albion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.52 - Sunshine Baseball Club Barclay Reserve Albion 2021 Photo 02.JPG 5569.53 - Norm McArthur Field Sunshine Baseball Club Barclay Reserve Albion 2021 Photo 01.JPG 5569.54 - Talmage St - Gum Trees Photo 01.JPG 5569.55 - Sydney St 67 - Yen Ming Tang Buddhist Meditation Centre 2021 Photo 01.JPG ballarat road, adelaide street, sydney street, selwyn street, hulett street, derrimut street, coolamon street, ferguson street, kamarooka street, king edward avenue, ridley street, talmage street, albion, united petroleum, a.r.c., albion baptist church, albion community house and garden, albion primary school, albion railway station, albion tennis club, selwyn park, allen foundary, kororoit creek, sunshine baseball club, barclay reserve, bill goldsworthy, ian anderson, engery park, john darling flour mills, albion methodist church, north cyprus turkish community centre, p.m.g. depot, norm mcarthur, yen ming tang buddhist meditation centre

These photographs provide a visual record of assorted buildings, street views, and notable locations throughout Sunshine in 2022.This collection of photographs preserves a visual record of Sunshine 2022.5628.01 - Hampshire Rd 134 - Sunshine Panels 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.02 - Hampshire Rd 221A Sunshine - NNB Dessert House 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.03 - Hampshire Rd 234 - 246 Sunshine 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.04 - Hampshire Rd 254 2022 Sunshine Photo 01.JPG 5628.05 - Hampshire Rd 277 (Rear) Sunshine - Ruby's Club 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.06 - Hampshire Rd 324 - 328 Sunshine - Sunshine Plaza 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.07 - Hampshire Rd Sunshine Looking North from Railway Line 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.08 - Hampshire Rd Sunshine S-E Cnr Devonshire Rd 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.09 - Hampshire Rd Sunshine - Sunshine Primary School 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.10 - Sunshine Rifle Club Site Kororoit Creek Ford between the Shooting And Target Butts 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.11 - Sunshine Rifle Club Site Kororoit Creek Approx Site of Former Sunshine Rifle Range Target Butt Site 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.12 - Sunshine Rifle Club Site Kororoit Creek Approx Site of Former Sunshine Rifle Range Target Butt Site 2022 Photo 02.JPG 5628.13 - Kororoit Creek Fraser St Stony Creek Outlet 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.14 - Market Rd 6 Sunshine 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.15 - Market Rd 6 Sunshine 2022 Photo 02.JPG 5628.16 - Market Rd Sunshine 16 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.17 - McIntyre Rd Looking Toward Bendigo Railway Line Underpass 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.18 - McKay's Pedestrian Bridge 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.19 - Ormond Ave 31 Sunshine - United Pumps 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.20 - Second Ave 12 Sunshine 2022 Photo 02.JPG 5628.22 - Second Ave 23 - 25 Sunshine - Former Cabinet Works 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.21 - Man Lifting Cow Hampshire Rd 2020 Photo 01.JPG 5628.23 - Service St 5 Sunshine 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.24 - Service St 15 - 19 Sunshine - Building Under Construction 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.25 - St. Albans Rd Sunshine North - Former Albion Station Site (1859 - 1861) 2022 Photo 04.JPG 5628.26 - Station Place 66 Sunshine 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.27 - Sun Cres 5 - 7 Sunshine 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.28 - Sun Cres 5 - 9 Sunshine 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.29 - Sun Cres 9 Sunshine 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.30 - Sun Cres 11 - 17 Sunshine 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.31 - Sun Cres 15 - 21 Sunshine 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.32 - Sun Cres 29 Sunshine - Sun Cres Medical Centre 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.33 - Sun Cres 33 Sunshine 2022 Photo 01 (2).JPG 5628.34 - Sun Cres 33 Sunshine 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.35 - Sun Cres 202 Sunshine Photo 01.JPG 5628.36 - Sun Cres 2022 Sunshine Photo 02.JPG 5628.37 - Sun Cres 2022 Sunshine Photo 08.JPG 5628.38 - Sun Cres And Durham Rd Sunshine Intersection Looking South 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.39 - Sun Cres Sunshine 2022 Photo 03.JPG 5628.40 - Sun Cres Sunshine 2022 Photo 05.JPG 5628.41 - Sun Cres Sunshine 2022 Photo 06.JPG 5628.42 - Sun Cres Sunshine 2022 Photo 07.JPG 5628.43 - Sun Cres Sunshine 2022 Photo 09.JPG 5628.44 - Sun Cres Sunshine 2022 Photo 10.JPG 5628.45 - Sun Cres Sunshine Looking West 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.46 - Suns Cres Sunshine 31 2022 Photo 01.JPG 5628.47 - Suns Cres 32 - 36 Sunshine 2022 Photo 01.JPG hampshire road, sunshine, dickson street, sunshine plaza, sunshine primary school, kororoit creek, market road, mcintyre road, ormond avenue, second avenue, man lifting cow, service street, st. albans road, sun crescent, sunshine north

Johan 'John' Adam Krix b31/1/1948 d23/3/2026 Twin to Eva). Johan's parents Pavao "Paul' Krix & Elizabeth Katerina Krix Nee Ecker and his siblings Katarina & Eva lived in Couch Street & Derby Road Sunshine. Johan has spent a lifetime living in Sunshine. As a student he attended Sunshine Primary School followed by Sunshine West High School. After attending University and graduating as a teacher, Johan was soon teaching art and photography at the Sunshine Technical School before moving to the Altona North Technical School. Many of his former students remember the cardboard pin hole camera they made in his classes. Over the years his passion for photography has never diminished. His interest has now turned to full spectrum photography. This form of photography captures visible and near invisible infrared light that the human eye can or cannot see. The resulting image provides the viewer with an eerie representation of the scene.john 'john' krix, derby road, sunshine, sunshine technical school

The Bicentennial Diary 1988 My Year in Australia's 200th Birthday Year Hard cover diary, cream cover with gold lettering. Comments added by students throughout the year: 41a Diary cover 41b diary front piece - donated by the Parent's Club and presented on behalf of grade 6 pupils to the Bendigo North P.S. Library 41c first entry by Jodie Bates Gr. 6 on Thursday 4 February 1988 41d example of entry Monday 15 - Thursday 18 August 1988 41e final diary entry Tuesday 6 February 1988Sunshine Diaries Pty Ltdnorth bendigo primary school, diary

Johan 'John' Adam Krix b31/1/1948 d23/3/2026 Twin to Eva). Johan's parents Pavao "Paul' Krix & Elizabeth Katerina Krix Nee Ecker and his siblings Katarina & Eva lived in Couch Street & Derby Road Sunshine. Johan has spent a lifetime living in Sunshine. As a student he attended Sunshine Primary School followed by Sunshine West High School. After attending University and graduating as a teacher, Johan was soon teaching art and photography at the Sunshine Technical School before moving to the Altona North Technical School. Many of his former students remember the cardboard pin hole camera they made in his classes. Over the years his passion for photography has never diminished. His interest has now turned to full spectrum photography. This form of photography captures visible and near invisible infrared light that the human eye can or cannot see. The resulting image provides the viewer with an eerie representation of the scene.john 'john' krix, derby road, sunshine, sunshine technical school

Photocopy of photograph Category 140 Deer Park State School 2434 Built 1874 Early 19th Century|Photocopy of drawing of Hunt Club community Centre Ballarat Road Deer Park|Hand written notes for Deer Park by Norm Carlton|Photocopy of Article Deer Hunting In Australia Supplied by Des Johnson Oct 1997|Photocopy of Article Deer Park Over the Years|Photocopy of Article Deer Park Landmarks|Photocopy of typed report Deer Park History|Photocopy of report ICI and Deer Park A Long Term Association|Photocopy of letter dated 19 December 1993|Photocopy of typed notes Pioneers of the Deer Park Districk|Report from ICI Contrasts and continuity|Photocopy of Newspaper Article This Family has 267 Years service with one firm|Photocopy of ICI Circle Newspaper 31 May 1978 50 years|Photocopy of Service Directory Brimbanks Suburbs|Photocopy of Newspaper Article Wandering around Werribee|Newspaper Article Western Independent 31 August 1993 As one gate closes|Photocopy of Newspaper Article Fighting fires was worth a lemonade|Newspaper Article The Advocate 25 January 2000 Hands Off Residents fight for their castle|Newspaper Article Deer Park once the perfect place for a social shoot|Newspaper Article the Advocate 15 April 1992 A heart for Deer Park|Report Brimbank Community Plan 2009 to 2030 Deer Park Local Area Pland SouthWest|Photocopy of photograph 1956 Class of Deer Park State Primary Schoole 1434 1 Reg Spratling 2 Ian Sutherland 3 Ken Brown 4 Bob Foley 5 Alec OBrien 6 Maurie Hunter 7 Unknown 8 Jack fisher 9 Stan Brown 10 Lester Musely 11 Unknow 12 Gwen Gray 13 Claire Robinson 14 Norma Johnson 15 Joyce Cronin 16 Marge Robinson 17 Violet Fisher 18 Gena Thomas 19 Vida Mosely 20 Unknown 21 Jessie Boobey 22 Dorothy Hilton 23 Mabel Barry 24 Elsie MacLeod 25 Marge Byrne 26 Ella Burgess 27 Unknown 28 Vi Wilson 29 Dulcie Ross 30 Daisy Thomas 31 Johnson 32 Fay Johnson 33 Unknown 34 Unknown 35 Harold OBrien 36 Unknown 37 Alan Obrien 38 Bruce Sutherland 39 Roland Foley 40 Matthew David Ure 41 Bob Barnett 42 burton Hunter 43 Harry MacLeod 44 Jim Lawrence 45 Joe Lawrence|Photocopy of Program Share your membories of Early Deer Park at the Deer Park History Afternoon 21 September 2003|Photocopy of hand written notes Deer Park History Day 21 September 2003 Attendance Sheet|Photocopy of written report community Profile and Resource File May 2002|Brochure Burnside News Issue 2 2001 Burnside A great place for your family|Brochure Burnside within reach beyond expectation 2001 to 2002|Photocopy of Newsrail October 1993 Deer Park Again|Photocopy of Occupation Crossings|Photocopy of PCR Crossings|Photocopy of Victorian Railways Map for Footscray and Bacchus Marsh Line|Handwritten Notes for Deer Park|Handwritten Notes for Deer Park Goods Shed|Handwritten Notes for Deer Park Weekly Notice Extracts|Type written Notes for Weekly Notice extracts|Photocopy of Victorian Railways Names of Victorian Railway Stations|Photocopy of Railway construction No 682|Photocopy of newsrail July 2009 TailDisc Ravenhall|Photocopy of Newspaper Article Sunshine Illustrated 21 May 1960 Imperial Chemical Industries has immense Plant at Deer Park|Type written report for Mt Derrimut|Newspaper Article Brimbank Independent 8 June 1999 Council furphy upsets former cycling champ|Newspaper Article The Advocate 26 Feburay 2002 Built a business from ground Up Obituary David Ure|Photocopy Newspaper Article Mount Derrimut From a Colonys past to a Countrys Future|Newspaper Article Bowls News and Views December 1980 Deer Park Snippets of History|Photocopy of type written report Opening of Sunshine Hunt Club Commuity Centre 2 June 1985|Draft report Hunt Club Community Centre Glimpses of Early History of site|Letter dated 19 May 1984 Sunshine and District Historical Society|Letter Deer Park Services Coordinating Group|Letter dated 6 July 1983 Deer Park North Primary School|Newspaper Article Deer roamed the plains|Newspaper Article Brimbank Leader 12 March 2002 Population boom sounds over west|Newspaper Article The Advocate 13 February 2001 Book walks the wild side|Photocopy of Newspaper Article The Sun News Pictorial 19 September 1935 Two Men killed in explosion at Ammunition Factory James Robertson and Harry Powell|Photocopy of Oblique aerial photograph 1950|Letter Dated 24 September 1980 Deer Park Primary School|Type written Notes Deer Park History Afternoon 21 September 2003 Suggested order of proceedings|Hand written note ICI purchased Mt Derrimut August 1950|Photocopy of letter dated 21 July 1992 ICI Deer Park|Brochure ICI Australia today|Photocopy of Notice Know Our History the Story of ICI at Deer Park 13 October 1996|Type written note 100 years of Deer Park State School and the Deer Park District|Photocopy of Newspaper Article School on the move Fighting fires was worth a lemonade|Newspaper Article Messenger 25 January 2000 Old and homely and not historic|Photocopy of Newspaper Article The Sun 19 September 1935 Two men killed in Explosion at Deer Park|Newspaper Article Star 10 June 2003 Heritage plan for homestead|Photocopy of photograph Deer Park Amateur Cycling Club Eary 1930s H OBrien D Gray J Chapman Trainer E OBrien L Ray|Type written note An Early Irish Family at Deer Park|Type written extract Melbourn Hunt Club weights|Type written invitation to Deer Park Entertainers 1 October|Photocopy of Newspaper Article The Advocate 25 July 1979 Deer roamed the plains|Report on historical background of site of proposed new station at Deer Park West March 1977deer park, history, landmarks

This document was produced for a Sunshine & District Historical Society Exhibition on 2916Braybrook State School No 1102|Deer Park State School No 1434 (Formerly known as Kororoit Creek or Derrimut School)|Sunshine State School No 3113 (Formerly known as Braybrook South or Braybrook Junction State School)|Albion State School No 4265|Sunshine East State School No 4645|Tottenham North State School No 4703|Tottenham State School No 4707|Sunshine Heights State School No 4744|Sunshine North State School no 4745|Sunvale State School No 4818|Albion North State School No 4855|Sunshine Technical School|Sunshine high School|Tottenham Technical School|Sunshine West High School|Sunshine North Technical School|Ardeer High School|Sunshine Boy's Christian College|Our Lady of the Immaculate|St Theresa's|St Peter Chanel's|St Bernadettes's|St Paul's . St Peter's Primary Schoolstate school, primary school

This school was located a7 199 Sunshine Road Tottenham. It was established in 1953. The school was merged with the Tottenham North Primary School. This school was then closed and demolished.1/ Primary School 4707 Sequential Spelling Handouttottenham state school, primary school, sunshine road, tottenham

Photographs taken at demonstration of blacksmithing arranged by Sunshine and District Historical SocietyPhotographs of Demonstration of Black smithing on 24 April 2012 Pupils from Albion North Primary School at site of replica HV McKay Smithyh.v.mckay, smithy, blacksmith

Enrolment Documentation Sunshine West High School 1978|Extract Maribyrnong High School history|Extract Sunshine West High School history|Extract Sunshine School history|Extract St Albans School history|Extract Kealba School history|Extract Keilor Heights School history|Extract Braybrook School history|Extract Tottenham School history|Extract Albion School history|Extract Keilor School history|Extract Sunshine East School history|Extract Kororoit School history|Extract Braybrook South School history|Extract Keilor Heights School history|Extract St Albans School history|Extract Sunshine Heights School history|Extract Braybrook School history|Extract St Albans East School history|Extract Keilor Road Station School history|Extract Sunshine North School history|Extract Sunvale School history|Extract Tottenham North School history|Extract St Albans Heights School history|Extract Ardeer School history|Extract Braybrook School history|Extract Footscray North Special School history|Extract Braybrook School history|Extract Truganina School history|Extract Deer Park School history|Extract BrooklynSchool history|Extract Deer Park West School history|Extract Maidstone School history|Extract St Albans North School history|Extract Stevensville School history|Extract Keilor South School history|Extract Milleara School history|Extract Maidstone School history|Extract Maribyrnong School history|Extract Albion School history|Extract Albion North School history|Extract Avondale School history|Extract Sunshine North School history|Extract Sunshine School history|Extract St Albans School history|Extract Tottenham School history|Boundaries for country educational regions|Summary of School and their history (Contains information on both Primary & Secondary School)state school, primary school, technical school, secondary school

The photographs were taken from Dinjerra Primary Schooland donated to the Sunshine and District Historical Society for its collection recordsNildinjerra primary school, primary school, south road, braybrook

Memories of Train Travel compiled by Wendy Barrie 4/09/2013 Train travel had changed very little from the time my mothers generation to mine. The timetable meant the usual rush to Melton South by bike in her case and if she was running late the train pulled up on the crossing. I was driven to the Station from home past Keith and Mary Gillespie’s house near the Ferris Road rail crossing to Bridge road to Melton South for the 7.32 train. While attending Sunshine High School in 1961 I would meet up with three other students, two of whom I knew from Bacchus Marsh High School days. We usually got into the same compartment on the train, it was a typical country train with a corridor along the side and compartments with a door, roof racks and sometimes heated metal containers for the feet in the winter. Some of the trains came through from Horsham and Ballarat, and the Overland from Adelaide passed through in the evening, we could hear it in the distance from the Ferris Lane home. The carriages had 1st and economy class compartments showing photographs of county scenes and holiday destinations. The engine was the large A class diesel. They are still running to Bacchus Marsh 50 years later, due to the need for the greatly increased number of commuters travelling to work in the city. Sometimes the carriages were pull by a Steam engine, these were a problem in the summer time because the sparks caused fires along the train lines and then quickly spread into the dry grass, crops and stubble. The Motor Train left Spencer Street at 4.23 pm and was the best train for me to catch. Ferris Road was a designated stop and train pulled up on the road crossing. It had steps at the door and rungs to hold while alighting to the ground. The ballast along the tracks was rough and uneven and awkward to land on. The train was painted blue and yellow with the letters VR pained on the front. This saved may parents the afternoon trip to collect me from the Station. On the walk home on the gravel road I would pass Uncle Tom and Aunty May’s house before reaching home. Melva Gillespie was studying at Sunshine Technical School and we sometimes both got off the train at the same time. On other occasions the Motor Train was replaced with a diesel engine with carriages, it was also required to stop and the driver had to be notified in advance. This meant getting into the guards van a Rockbank. It was more difficult alighting from the carriage as the gap was greater and more precarious to swing out and land on the ground. A few times in my last year of study at Melbourne Teachers College in Grattan Street Carlton. I managed to catch the 2.30 pm train to Serviceton, it was express to Melton and was very quick trip. The last train, was the 5.25 pm diesel to Ballarat and I usually caught this train to Melton South Station. On one occasion after being held up on the tram in Bourke street I had to make a mad dash to the platform chasing the train as it was just moving off and yelling to the guard, fortunately I was noticed and the train ground to halt. I scrambled into the end door and took most of the journey home to recover. After the last year at High School I continued to travel on the train, 2 years to Prahran Technical School changing at North Melbourne. There were a lot school children travelling to private schools and some at the primary level and mainly from Bacchus Marsh. Rockbank children also travelled by train from the beginning of their high school years, quite a few went to Sunshine High School. Book provided a timetable and information about the stations the train travels to from Melbourne to Adelaide. transport

Eldest daughter of Edna and Bon Barrie, born on 03 November 1943 in Melbourne, Victoria, Memoirs of Wendy Barrie, recalling the early formative years of life in Melton: In 1949 I started school at Melton State School no 430 and was driven the 2½ miles to there by my parents at first. Later we walked home in the afternoons or were picked up by car as we made our way home along the Western Highway. In 1956 I went to Bacchus Marsh High School. There were 4 students in grade 6 and 3 of us went to the High School. The students from Melton, Melton South and Toolern Vale State Schools went by bus to Bacchus Marsh High School as far a fifth form. My parents drove me to the pick up point and during the five years of travel to High School. The bus travelled via Toolern Vale and later went through Exford and through Parwan. On the return journey in the afternoon the bus went in the reverse direction. The bridge at Exford was an old narrow wooden one, and the students had to get off the bus and walk across, with the driver crossing in the empty bus for safety reasons. There was a travelling allowance paid to parents and it was estimated from the distance the crow flies, a straight line. We lived a Ferris Lane, just where the Harness Racing entrance is now situated about 2 ½ miles by road to school too close to qualify for the subsidy. While at State School Melton we would walk home in a group with the Nixon and Gillespie children, along the main road over the bridge near the Shire Offices and down a hill. I was being dinked on Joyce Gillespie’s bike while holding onto the seat, toppled off the bike striking my chin and teeth on the bitumen and cracking my jaw. I was about 9 years old and stayed a couple of days in the Quamby Hospital in Bacchus Marsh, it seemed like and eternity at the time and quite traumatic being separated from my family. I can remember contemplating how I could get out of the window and run away but realised it was too far to walk home. Often we would cut across the Common on our way home from school picking up stray golf balls and collecting them from the creek when it dried out. We were warned about not accepting lifts from strangers passing along the Melbourne/ Ballarat Road. The only danger we faced was being swooped by the magpies particularly on the open ground on the Common. We were also fairly cautious when the Gypsies camped on the Common in the area just about opposite the small reservoir. “Mum” grandma Myers loved to have us call in on our way home, and usually would cut a slice of Jongebloed’s bread and spread it with home made butter. Sometimes we waited there until we were collected by car, usually driven by our mother. Margaret Nixon and Joyce Gillespie were a few grades ahead of me and Barbara Nixon was born just two months earlier than me. Our mothers were great friends for over 6o years, born in the same month three years apart. They lived within a few days of the same age as each other at the time their deaths. Dad and George Nixon attended Melton school at the same time. Sarah nee Hornbuckle Nixon and my grandfather Frederick Myers Snr were at school together at the same in the 1880s. The Nixon family lived in Keilor Road just past the Toolern Creek near the turnoff. Tom and Ann Collins lived on the southern side of the Western highway and Keilor road intersection. Jim and Ruby Gillespie’s house was further long Keilor road on the right. They backed onto the Myers who lived on the north side of Western Highway east of Myers Gully (Ryans Creek). The Bridge over the Toolern Creek as very narrow and as truck traffic increased there were accidents. One truck took out the side railing and plunged upside down into the bank and into the shallow water. Another fatal accident happened between a car and a truck right in front of the Myers house. Grandfather Fred had been a bike rider all his life, as far as the Riverina in his younger years, wryly made the comment about the drivers the speeding along the Ballarat Road were setting out to kill themselves. The road was busy particularly after the Races at Ballarat when the crowds were hurrying home to Melbourne. Train travel had changed very little from the time my mothers generation to mine. The timetable meant the usual rush to Melton South by bike in her case and if she was running late the train pulled up on the crossing. I was driven to the Station from home past Keith and Mary Gillespie’s house near the Ferris Road rail crossing to Bridge road to Melton South for the 7.32 train. While attending Sunshine High School in 1961 I would meet up with three other students, two of whom I knew from Bacchus Marsh High School days. We usually got into the same compartment on the train, it was a typical country train with a corridor along the side and compartments with a door, roof racks and sometimes heated metal containers for the feet in the winter. Some of the trains came through from Horsham and Ballarat, and the Overland from Adelaide passed through in the evening, we could hear it in the distance from the Ferris Lane home. The carriages had 1st and economy class compartments showing photographs of county scenes and holiday destinations. The engine was the large A class diesel. They are still running to Bacchus Marsh 50 years later, due to the need for the greatly increased number of commuters travelling to work in the city. Sometimes the carriages were pull by a Steam engine, these were a problem in the summer time because the sparks caused fires along the train lines and then quickly spread into the dry grass, crops and stubble. The Motor Train left Spencer Street at 4.23 pm and was the best train for me to catch. Ferris Road was a designated stop and train pulled up on the road crossing. It had steps at the door and rungs to hold while alighting to the ground. The ballast along the tracks was rough and uneven and awkward to land on. The train was painted blue and yellow with the letters VR pained on the front. This saved may parents the afternoon trip to collect me from the Station. On the walk home on the gravel road I would pass Uncle Tom and Aunty May’s house before reaching home. Melva Gillespie was studying at Sunshine Technical School and we sometimes both got off the train at the same time. On other occasions the Motor Train was replaced with a diesel engine with carriages, it was also required to stop and the driver had to be notified in advance. This meant getting into the guards van a Rockbank. It was more difficult alighting from the carriage as the gap was greater and more precarious to swing out and land on the ground. A few times in my last year of study at Melbourne Teachers College in Grattan Street Carlton. I managed to catch the 2.30 pm train to Serviceton, it was express to Melton and was very quick trip. The last train, was the 5.25 pm diesel to Ballarat and I usually caught this train to Melton South Station. On one occasion after being held up on the tram in Bourke street I had to make a mad dash to the platform chasing the train as it was just moving off and yelling to the guard, fortunately I was noticed and the train ground to halt. I scrambled into the end door and took most of the journey home to recover. After the last year at High School I continued to travel on the train, 2 years to Prahran Technical School changing at North Melbourne. There were a lot school children travelling to private schools and some at the primary level and mainly from Bacchus Marsh. Rockbank children also travelled by train from the beginning of their high school years, quite a few went to Sunshine High School. During my third year of teacher training I travelled to Flinders Street to RMIT for ceramics classes and Grattan St Teachers College located in the grounds of Melbourne University. There were many teachers being trained at the Secondary Teachers College due to the baby bulge creating a great shortage of teachers. Sunshine High School was very well represented amongst the different courses in Primary, Secondary and Art and Crafts. I attended Melbourne University lectures, studying a Fine Art subject. Bernard Smith was the most notable of the lecturers. he replaced Professor Joseph Bourke who had taken leave for the years. In 1962 he published the art book “Australian Painting”. The secondary art and craft student teachers from the College were in the majority, taking this subject and were well regarded due to their practical art and craft methods and their teaching round experience. In December 1964 I graduated as a Trained Secondary Teacher – Art and Crafts. The graduating ceremony was held at Wilson Hall. I received my appointment to work at Maryborough High School. Uncle Max and Aunty Rosemary Myers arranged my accommodation. Uncle Max was a teacher at the Maryborough Technical School fat the time. The appointment was suddenly changed when just before the school year was about to start when I received notification that I was now required to move to Warracknabeal High School. I was subject to a bond for the three years of training and three years of teaching and was under an obligation to comply with the directive of the Education Department. My father stood as guarantor when I was accepted as student at the Melbourne Teachers’ College, thus enabling me to receive my teacher training, and a 5 pounds a week allowance for expenses. After teaching for two years at Warracknabeal High School I was fortunate enough the gain a transfer to Sunshine West High School, returning to live at home in Melton and travelling by car to work with a fellow colleague, Jock Smith who lived at Station road Melton. I completed bond obligation and resigned at the end of the year. The employment regulations at that time did not allow the option of leave of absence for, indefinite overseas travel. I returned to Australia in October 1969. Visiting Arthur Hart the Principal of Sunshine High School he arranged with the Education Department for my re-employment at Sunshine High School until the end of the year. In 1970 I was transferred, and returned to Sunshine West High School where I worked for the next three years. In January 1968 I sailed on the “Oriana” to South Hampton with two teaching friends from Warracknabeal High School on a travelling and working holiday. Doreen Kiely, a former Bacchus Marsh High student and fellow train traveller from Bacchus Marsh, was already working in London, had arranged our accommodation at the London Travellers Club Hotel, Braham Gardens, Earls Court SW5. We based our stay at this address in London and travelled around Scotland, Ireland and England. In the summer we took a four month trip around the Continent and the Mediterranean. I registered with The Royal Borough Of Kingston Upon Thames as a Supply teacher, and worked at Chessington School form autumn to spring the following year and living with Mrs Rose Gillies at Kinross Avenue, Worcester Park, Surrey. In the spring of 1969 visiting Norway, Sweden and Finland joining an organised camping group to the Artic Circle, entered Russia at Leningrad (St Petersburg) Moscow, Minsk, to Poland and Czechoslovakia. In August returning to Worcester Park for the flight to Montreal to stay with cousin Lynette and husband Jurgen. A side trip was taken to Toronto, Niagara Falls and New York. The flight home from Montreal to Melbourne took 52 hours. A ½ day break in Vancouver before boarding the Qantas boeing 707 via San Francisco, Honolulu, Fiji, Sydney to Melbourne. Around the world in 21 months. Photographs of Wendy local identities