PELL MELL SCHOOL PUPILS AND TEACHER CA1900
c. 1890 - 1899Black and white photo of group of 21 children standing in front of school building on the ground below a verandah, 11 boys & 10 girls. The boys are all wearing trousers and boots; the girls are all wearing pinafores and boots/shoes.
Standing on veranda is teacher Norman Fry.
Building has verandah on three sides. On right side is a corrugated iron enclosure - also a rain water tank- building and tank are on stumps raised off the ground. Roof has high pitch and a ventilation panel is on front - chimney is seen at back of roof. School is surrounded by trees
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.
(This same group may also appear in Shire of Toodyay photograph 2001.1520, where the children are individually identified)
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Writing on reverse of the photo reads: "Pell Mell School, about 1900. Teacher, Norman Fry. A son of J. H. Phillips was a pupil, also Beards, Cousins, Chittys and Lynch. From a photo of E. Beards, taken by A.E. Frost, Perth."
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)
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