About Jim… Name: Dennis James (Jim) Yarwood. DOB: 9/11/1949 (67 years of age) Hobbies/Sports: Jim was the captain of the school baseball team in year 7. He also coached tennis on Saturday mornings as he really enjoyed that. He also played football and cricket which he loved. Family Members […]
Harry Morris
Biography Harry Morris Born 20th March 1950 Third person named Henry in his family Occupation – Electronics Technical Officer Retired 10 years ago School Went to Westbreen Primary School Then attended Glenroy Technical School For most subjects Harry was an average student but was very interested in maths and physics Harry’s main reading material were […]
Nicholas Grange
Growing up in Lancashire Wigan an old mining town, nicks career’s started young. At the age of 9 he worked at a grocery. Grocery’s back then aren’t like the ones we have today, they were much more personalised instead of buying for the week you would buy for the day, because you couldn’t keep food […]
Eric Percy William Johnson
•Eric is 89 years of age 11/1/1927 and lives in Eltham, he has a daughter who teaches at this school in Visual Communications and Design. •Eric has three grandchildren that went to this school. •He grew up in Balwyn north (kew) •Aged 14 Eric left school in 1941, he went to Shepparton for the war […]
Bruce Owen’s Journey
GROWING UP Bruce was born in 1948 Bruce started Primary School in 1954. He went to Preston East Primary School In the late years of primary school Bruce joined the St John’s ambulance Bruce then went to Ivanhoe Grammar for years 7-11. In form 2 Bruce joined the school army cadets and during the 3-4 […]
Rodney Crowther
Rodney grew up around world war 2. Rodney got 8 years of education in his late teens studied art at Melbourne R.M.I.T for several years. In school there were no male teachers because all the males where involved in the war and not able to work. Finding a job for Rodney as a young boy […]
Daryl Morrow
Nicknames: Dazza, Turner, ‘o’ wise one, OD. DOB:2/2/1941 – born in Colac. Parents Names: Molly (Marry)- Mum Les (Leslie)- Dad Siblings:2 Brothers – Skeet (Terrence) – William (Bill) GROWING UP Daryl claimed it was very difficult growing up. They had no electricity, no radio, no TV and didn’t even know about TV’s. They had a […]
Brian Holt
Brian is 75 years old growing up in Sydney attending school at Fairfield secondary. and now lives in Eltham. Brian is a member of quite a large family having 4 brothers and 4 sisters, His father was a part of the war and was held in a prison from 1942-1945 he met his father in […]
Remembering Newlands High School
by Cheryl Griffin Up until the early 1990s, Coburg had two high schools: Coburg High School in Bell Street and Newlands High School in Murray Road. For many years there was no Year 7 to 12 secondary school in Coburg, but thanks to the successful community campaign ‘High School for Coburg’, there is now a […]
The Old Boys of Coburg High School and World War One
By Cheryl Griffin Below is a list of the old boys of Coburg High School who served in World War One. Most of them were in the first intake of pupils into the school in 1912, just a few years before hostilities began. The rest (Bowen, Buzaglo, Groves, Head, Jarvie, Scott, Sherlock, Tait, Templeton […]