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    • History >
      • Contents
      • Introduction
      • 1912 - 1919
      • 1920 - 1929
      • 1930 - 1939
      • 1940 - 1949
      • 1950 - 1959
      • 1960 - 1969
      • 1970 - 1979
      • 1980 - 1989
      • 1990 - 1997
      • Badges and Memorabilia
      • Cora Lynn - Mirror & Reserve
      • Owners - Girls' Technical School
    • Terms of Use
    • Documents >
      • Annual Exhibition & Demo 1926
      • George Scott
      • MMBW Plan C. 1905
      • Annual Awards 1977
      • Letters to the Editor 1991
      • Cookery 1942
      • Memories ... 1943–1945. Valda Tibbits
      • Marketing in 1984
      • Year 12 Courses 1986, Open Day 1986 and Folder
      • Prospectus Boys 1940
      • Prospectus Girls 1944
      • Homework - Cartoon
    • Photographs >
      • The Beginning
      • Opening New Wing
      • Footings for Assembly Hall 1969
      • Photos 1978
      • Photos 1960-1963
      • Class Photographs >
        • Class Photos 1982
        • Class Photos 1980
        • Class Portraits '70s and '80s
        • Class Photos 1978
        • Class Photos 1977
        • Class Photos 1975
        • Class Photos 1974
        • Class Photos 1970
        • Class Photos 1969
        • Class Photos 1968
        • Class Photos 1967
        • Class Photos 1966
        • Class Photos 1965
        • Class Photos 1964
        • Class Photos 1962
        • Class Photos 1961
        • Class Photos 1960
        • Class Photos 1958
        • Class Photos 1957
        • Class Photos 1956
        • Class Photos 1955
        • Class Photos 1954
        • Class Photos 1947
        • Class Photos 1946
        • Class Photos 1945
        • Class Photos 1944
        • Class Photos 1929
        • Class Photos 1928
        • Muster 1924
      • Investiture
      • Buildings and Grounds >
        • Buildings
      • Cadets
      • The Gates
      • Items made by Students
      • In the Class Room - Boys' School
      • Uniforms
      • In the Class Room - Girls' School >
        • Dressmaking Drafts
        • Artwork Design - a Career
        • Girls' Metal Work
        • Horticulture in 1945
        • Horticulture in 1946
        • Val Treloar - Spelling Note Book
        • Val Treloar - Hygiene Book
      • In the Class Room - Boys and Girls >
        • We need your help!
      • In the Class Room - Community Education
      • Sporting Achievements and Trophies >
        • Human Dominoes
    • Acknowledgements
    • Latest News
    • Demolition and Auction >
      • Ultimatum on school site subdivision.
      • Land sale approved
      • Land sells fast
      • Council Wants Big Picture
      • Speedy Sale
      • Land subdivision
    • Alumni and Tributes >
      • Donald Anderson
      • Allan Thomas Bernaldo
      • Michael Burge OAM
      • Lindsay Chapman
      • (Margaret) Joan Couzoff, nee Staindl
      • Anzlie Vivian Chick
      • Percy Edgar Everett
      • David Hains
      • Joy Hester
      • Stoker J. H. Hill
      • Francis H. Johnston
      • Albert Charles King
      • P.T.E. Alan R. Knights
      • Gwendolin Leech
      • Ronald James Leech
      • Michael Mace 0AM
      • William Russell McIndoe
      • Sir Sidney Nolan OM AC >
        • Nolan: Letter from Principal
      • Stan Rule
      • Shirley Steinwedel
      • Leo Conroy Steminger Part 1
      • Leo Conroy Steminger Part 2
      • Florence Annie Swan (Miss)
      • Pte Eric Swansson
      • Irwin Bismark Topperwien
      • Paul Warren
      • Driver Keith E. Watson
      • Ernest Weate ED OBE
      • Flora Margaret Whelan BEM
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Buildings and Grounds 
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Photo of Geoff Flack circa 1958.  
​Geoff said, "When they opened a new sport ground next to the Boys' School,
​each Form planted a tree".
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Postcard on the back cover of the 1988 "Seaspray", the Magazine of the Brighton Technical School. "Cora Lynn" Brighton Technical School (Girls'). 45 Cochrane Street, Brighton, Victoria. Artist : Pham Mahn Cuong. T.O.P. Art Student at Brighton Technical School 1988.
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"Southern Cross"  2nd. August, 1995.
OPEN SPACE TUSSLE AT OLD BRIGHTON TECH SCHOOL SITE.   By Jan Price.
People living near the former Brighton Technical School in Cochrane Street are stepping up their fight to have the remaining school building demolished to make open space.

All but one of the buildings on the old school site have been demolished, leaving only the 1920s. trade school building in Berwick Street, used until recently as a council-run library.


Bayside Commissioner Morton Browne has told residents the trade school had "served it purpose" and was likely to be sold.

Tovell Street residents Wendy Dare and Doris Page said this week more than 80 percent of residents surveyed in Vaucluse, Berwick and Tovell Streets near the site wanted the trade school building turned over to public open space.   A petition of 60 signatures was tabled at Bayside council three months ago.   Brighton Historical Society president David Bick wants the trade school retained as an example of a 1920s. public building.   Mr. Bick has prepared floor plans and suggested selling it for redevelopment as flats, within the shell of the existing building.

The area will be subject to new drainage works to cater for stormwater from the St. James Park Estate.    Estate subdivider Bruce Hamilton has asked council to build a two-metre drain easement between Tovell and Berwick Streets and along Vaucluse Street to New Street.

Residents fear development at the site could endanger mature sugar gums in Tovell Street, at the western boundary of the land.

Former assistant State Botanist Dr. Jim Willis last week gave the stand of 80-year-old sugar gums a clean bill of health.   Dr. Willis said that although scarred and mis-shapen through poor pruning over many years, they were not diseased.

Demolition workers raised more than $30,000 from building materials salvaged from the 1880s. villa Cora Lyn (sic.) at the former school, including $12,000 for the lantern roof, timber dado and mantelpiece in the billiard room.   A Brighton resident bought the villa's magnificent hall mirror.
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​Brighton Technical School, 45 Cochrane Street, Brighton, Victoria. 
Girls' School - "Cora Lynn".
The glass-house which was used as the horticulture class-room.
Photograph courtesy of Judy Whitaker.
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The Brighton Technical School Hall, which can be seen in the background of this photo, opened on 11 December, 1969, at 2.30 pm.
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Brighton Technical School. Girls' School. "Cora Lynn" 45 Cochrane Street, Brighton, Victoria. "Brighton Southern Cross" newspaper. 1st. October, 1921. Page 1. Heading - "Brighton Technical School. Students Eager for Enrolment. Mr. Snowball's Untiring Work. Cr. Grout Warmly Congratulated. "Cora Lynn" Estate Purchased.
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A Koelreuteria paniculata tree growing in Cora Lynn Park, St. James Park Drive, off Cochrane Street, Brighton, Victoria. Formerly the site of the Brighton Technical School. The Koelreuteria paniculata was propagated from the tree in the centre of the lawn in the Girls' Brighton Technical School, 45 Cochrane Street, Brighton, Victoria. Photo taken on 28 September, 2016.
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Plaque located in Cora Lynn Park, St. James Park Drive, off Cochrane Street, Brighton, Victoria. Formerly the site of the Brighton Technical School. Note : The name of the Brighton Technical School was changed to Brighton Bay Secondary College, on 20 December, 1989, when the notice appeared in the Victorian Government Gazette. The school officially closed in 1991, not 1989 as recorded on the plaque. Photo taken 28th September, 2016.
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Palm tree growing in Cora Lynn Park, St. James Park Drive, off Cochrane Street, Brighton, Victoria. Formerly the site of the Brighton Technical School. The palm tree was transplanted from the Girls' Brighton Technical School, 45 Cochrane Street, Brighton, Victoria. Photo taken 28th September, 2016.
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"New Era" at Brighton Tech. 1973. Article refers to: President Mr J Duncan, dux Elizabeth Roane, dux Dianne Bailes, and principal Mr Eric House.
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After 38 years, Harry is Leaving School. 1969. Harry Williams.
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Tech Hopes for a Golden Gift... Mr Bassett, principal for the past two years, is hoping that the Education Department will build a $250,000 science and library block... Here senior boy Paul Woodman, 16, goes over fete ideas with principal Mr W Bassett. 'Southern Cross, Wednesday, February 9, 1972.'
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Brighton Technical School. Boys' School. Berwick Street, Brighton, Victoria. Ample playing spaces about the Boys' School. 1938 "Sea Spray" Magazine.
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Brighton Technical School. Boys' School. Berwick Street, Brighton, Victoria. Not a War Ruin - Reconstruction. 1939 "Sea Spray" Magazine.
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Brighton Technical School. Girls' School. "Cora Lynn". 45 Cochrane Street, Brighton, Victoria. Sketching Out Of Doors. Form 4B. Note the glass house in the left background. It was the Horticulture Classroom. 1955 "Sea Spray" Magazine.
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"Table Talk", Thursday, 3rd. August, 1922. Page 18. "A large gathering witnessed the opening of the new Technical School in Berwick Street, Brighton, on Friday last, on the invitation of the Mayor, (Cr. Wilson). The Council contributed £3,800 towards the cost of the building, which was erected by the Education Department. Sir Alexander Peacock, who officiated at the opening ceremony was presented with a key of the school, and Mr. O. R. Snowball, M.L.A., who laid the foundation stone of the new workshops, with an inscribed trowel."

The Brighton Technical School for boys was located at Berwick Street,
​Brighton, Victoria, Australia. The Brighton Technical School for girls was located at
45 Cochrane Street, Brighton, Victoria, Australia. 

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    • History >
      • Contents
      • Introduction
      • 1912 - 1919
      • 1920 - 1929
      • 1930 - 1939
      • 1940 - 1949
      • 1950 - 1959
      • 1960 - 1969
      • 1970 - 1979
      • 1980 - 1989
      • 1990 - 1997
      • Badges and Memorabilia
      • Cora Lynn - Mirror & Reserve
      • Owners - Girls' Technical School
    • Terms of Use
    • Documents >
      • Annual Exhibition & Demo 1926
      • George Scott
      • MMBW Plan C. 1905
      • Annual Awards 1977
      • Letters to the Editor 1991
      • Cookery 1942
      • Memories ... 1943–1945. Valda Tibbits
      • Marketing in 1984
      • Year 12 Courses 1986, Open Day 1986 and Folder
      • Prospectus Boys 1940
      • Prospectus Girls 1944
      • Homework - Cartoon
    • Photographs >
      • The Beginning
      • Opening New Wing
      • Footings for Assembly Hall 1969
      • Photos 1978
      • Photos 1960-1963
      • Class Photographs >
        • Class Photos 1982
        • Class Photos 1980
        • Class Portraits '70s and '80s
        • Class Photos 1978
        • Class Photos 1977
        • Class Photos 1975
        • Class Photos 1974
        • Class Photos 1970
        • Class Photos 1969
        • Class Photos 1968
        • Class Photos 1967
        • Class Photos 1966
        • Class Photos 1965
        • Class Photos 1964
        • Class Photos 1962
        • Class Photos 1961
        • Class Photos 1960
        • Class Photos 1958
        • Class Photos 1957
        • Class Photos 1956
        • Class Photos 1955
        • Class Photos 1954
        • Class Photos 1947
        • Class Photos 1946
        • Class Photos 1945
        • Class Photos 1944
        • Class Photos 1929
        • Class Photos 1928
        • Muster 1924
      • Investiture
      • Buildings and Grounds >
        • Buildings
      • Cadets
      • The Gates
      • Items made by Students
      • In the Class Room - Boys' School
      • Uniforms
      • In the Class Room - Girls' School >
        • Dressmaking Drafts
        • Artwork Design - a Career
        • Girls' Metal Work
        • Horticulture in 1945
        • Horticulture in 1946
        • Val Treloar - Spelling Note Book
        • Val Treloar - Hygiene Book
      • In the Class Room - Boys and Girls >
        • We need your help!
      • In the Class Room - Community Education
      • Sporting Achievements and Trophies >
        • Human Dominoes
    • Acknowledgements
    • Latest News
    • Demolition and Auction >
      • Ultimatum on school site subdivision.
      • Land sale approved
      • Land sells fast
      • Council Wants Big Picture
      • Speedy Sale
      • Land subdivision
    • Alumni and Tributes >
      • Donald Anderson
      • Allan Thomas Bernaldo
      • Michael Burge OAM
      • Lindsay Chapman
      • (Margaret) Joan Couzoff, nee Staindl
      • Anzlie Vivian Chick
      • Percy Edgar Everett
      • David Hains
      • Joy Hester
      • Stoker J. H. Hill
      • Francis H. Johnston
      • Albert Charles King
      • P.T.E. Alan R. Knights
      • Gwendolin Leech
      • Ronald James Leech
      • Michael Mace 0AM
      • William Russell McIndoe
      • Sir Sidney Nolan OM AC >
        • Nolan: Letter from Principal
      • Stan Rule
      • Shirley Steinwedel
      • Leo Conroy Steminger Part 1
      • Leo Conroy Steminger Part 2
      • Florence Annie Swan (Miss)
      • Pte Eric Swansson
      • Irwin Bismark Topperwien
      • Paul Warren
      • Driver Keith E. Watson
      • Ernest Weate ED OBE
      • Flora Margaret Whelan BEM
    • Other Historical Research >
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