Coal dredger, Yallourn open cut, 1954
Coal dredger, Yallourn open cut, 1954
Yallourn, an industrial town and a garden suburb, ceased to exist 50 years after its beginnings in 1924. It was in the Latrobe Valley, 125 km south-east of Melbourne. The name was thought to derive from Aboriginal words meaning brown fire, a fitting tribute to the proposed brown coal electricity generation works expounded in a report of the State Electricity Commission on the Yallourn project in 1921.
Coal dredger, Yallourn open cut, 1954
A private garden, Yallourn, 1961
Yallourn house, 1926
Switchyard, Yallourn power station, 1954
Public playgrounds, Yallourn, 1961
Cemetery, Hernes Oak (1930) with Yallourn Works gates, 2010
50,000 kilowatt generator, Yallourn power statiion, 1954
Looking towards Green Street from Broadway, Yallourn, 1961
Yallourn cemetery, 2010
Yallourn-Melbourne electricity transmission lines, 1954
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