PELL MELL SCHOOL CHILDREN AND TEACHER MR NORMAN FRY

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c. 1890 - 1899

Subcollections

Overview

Black and white photograph showing three rows of students, boys and girls, totalling twenty-one with teacher standing next to them.
The children are grouped around a verandah post. Girls are dressed in frocks and pinafores, boys in knickerbockers, shirts and jackets.
Teacher in suit with waistcoat, holding a cane.

Historical information

Teacher is known to be Norman Fry, and the school is assumed to be Pell Mell School, located near Culham, in the district of Toodyay.
In 1898 Normal Fry conducted Barn Dances to raise funds for the school. Pell Mell School closed in 1900.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2001.1520

Item type

Photographs

Material

Photographic Paper

Themes

Education

Inscriptions and markings

Names of the people are written on the reverse of the photo.
"back row, L-R: Vern Chitty, Jim Lahiff, Doug Phillips, Annie O'Dea (Mrs Lambert), A. Lynch (Mrs H. Brockhurst), Annie? Lahiff (Mrs Ewan McIntosh), Alice Beard. Second row: Linda Kilpin, Mick Chitty, Mary Lynch (Mrs Horace Lockyer), Jack Phillips, Eddie Chitty, Eddie Berad. Front row: Mary Chitty (Mrs Harrington), Lucy Kilpin, David Lynch, Jimmy Kilpin, Ted O'Dea, Annie Kilpin, Mary Syred (Charlie and Bill's sister), Jack McPherson (Bolgart). Teacher: Mr Fry, from Hamilton, Vic., married Miss Hanley from Geraldton."

Contextual Information

Pastoral leases to the east and west of Bejoording in the Toodyay district were gazetted for Special Occupation Leases in 1872. Several men who were employed at 'Culham' took up S.O.L. blocks in the vicinity of the estate, forming a small community to be known as 'Pell Mell'. (p.252, 'Old Toodyay and Newcastle', Rica Erickson, Toodyay Shire Council 1974)