History of the Monash Gippsland Campus

Students busy in the electrical classroom in the 1940s.
(photo courtesy Colin Harvey)

The welding classroom. Diploma students used the boiler for thermodynamic studies.
(photo courtesy Colin Harvey)

Yallourn Technical School diploma students in 1955 - in the days when students wore collars and ties.
(photo courtesy John Hutchinson)

Postwar Yallourn in its heyday. There was no room to build a large new technical school in the town so the SEC provided land in Newborough.
(Three Decades, 1948)

The Yallourn W power station, built in the 1970s, hastened the demise of the company town. Its generating capacity was doubled and it needed the coal that lay under the town.