Historical information

This book was given in 1929 to Alma McCullagh by the Dennington Sabbath (Sunday) School with the teacher being R. Conn. The Dennington Presbyterian Church was originally established in Drummond Street in 1918. In 1951 it was moved to Lindsay Street and demolished in 1968. R. Conn may be Ruby Conn who was born in Warrnambool in 1890 to Joseph and Ann Conn. Joseph Conn was a blacksmith from Illowa in the late 19th century (today in that area we have Conn’s Corner and Conn’s Lane). The McCullagh family had a property in Yangery named Oak Grove.

Significance

This book is of interest because of the 1920s connection to the Dennington Presbyterian Church, the Conn family and the McCullagh families.

Physical description

This is a hard cover book of 256 pages. The cover is green with red and black lettering and an image of two men and two women inside a building. The cover is torn away on the back right hand corner. There are five full page black and white illustrations scattered throughout the text. The inscriptions are handwritten in black ink. There is a stamp of a lion on the first page.

Inscriptions & markings

‘Presbyterian Sabbath School Dennington, Prize awarded to Alma McCullagh, January 1929, R. Conn, Teacher’
‘Alma McCullagh Dennington’
‘Alma McCullagh’