Historical information

Photograph of a building on Legatee Stan Savige's property. It is labelled as Legacy Camp, Somers. This appears to be the original camp buildings established by Legacy in the 1930s.
Melbourne Legacy provides camps for junior legatees. The camps gave the children an opportunity of a summer beach holiday with other Legacy children. It started with outings to the property of Legacy founder, Legatee Stan Savige, who had a place in Balnarring East, close to the beach. Permanent camp buildings were built in 1930. In 1930 Lord Somers (Governor of Victoria) also started a camp at a nearby property and the area was renamed Somers. Legacy Somers Camps continued intermittently at Stan's property until it was decided in 1951 to make other arrangements for holidays.

Significance

An original building at Somers Camp.

Physical description

Black and white photo of No. 7 Legacy Club Somers and white envelope.

Inscriptions & markings

00398.1 Photo. "No. 7 Legacy Club Somers" on front. POST CARD in black ink on reverse. Pencil "To Ey?? / Legacy Camp / Bonnie" in pencil on reverse.
00398.2 Envelope. Archives June 1995. Legacy Camp. Legacy on Parade" in blue pen. "L/G D. Simonson" in black pen