OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Merricks State School, 1933 school photoraph.

DATE1933

MEDIAImage

COLLECTIONBalnarring and District Historical Society

REG NO.P2436

HISTORY

Merricks State School, 1933. Children in the Photograph - back row: Kathleen Oswin, Lorna Oswin, (????), Alice Mc Millan , Olive oswin, Mr Tayton (teacher).Front, kneeling: Charlie Crow, (??), John Oswin, Rene Morris, Ken?. Front: George Weston, Ernie Crow, (???), Jim Oswin.

This school, together with several other small schools of the eastern Peninsula was closed in 1950. Red Hill Cponsolidated School was the replacement and ran courses up to year eight. Children were transported to Red Hill by busses, their journeys lasting as much as an hour or more each way.

SUBJECTS

children, school photograph, schools, students

KEYWORDS

Crow, Charlie, Crow, Ernie, Mc Millan , Alice, Morris, Rene, Oswin, Jim, Oswin, John, Oswin, Kathleen, Oswin, Lorna, Oswin, Olive, Tayton, Mr, Weston, George, children, school photograph Merricks State School, schools, students