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Bernaldo Gallery - Scroll to bottom of page about Allan T. Bernaldo
(Added 15 April 2024)

David Hains
(Added 19 June 2023)

College site leased our for police training.... Land sells fast....Council to pay $400,000 for land
(Added 4 August 2022)

Land: St James Park Estate - Subdivision completed - final 15 allotments
(Added 4 August 2022)

The Brighton Technical School Annual Exhibition and Demonstration - 4 November 1926
(Added 3 July 2022)

Speedy Sale for Tech Site - 5 April 1995
(Added 3 July 2022)

Council Wants 'Big Picture' for Tech Site - 8 March 1995
(Added 3 July 2022)
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Ultimatum on School Site Subdivision - 15 February 1995
(Added 3 July 2022)

Brighton Junior Technical School Muster (School Photo) 1924 
(Added 2 July 2022)

Buildings
(Added 2 July 2022)
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School Group believed to be 1923
(Added 2 July 1923)
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Nolan: Letter from Principal Mr. O. D. Geddes, to Mrs. W. Landells
(Added 2 July 2022)

Land Sale Approved
(Added 2 July 2022)

The Beginning of Technical School Education in Brighton
(Added 13 June 2022)

Lady Somers Opening a New Wing - 1927
(Added 13 June 2022)

Footings for the Assembly Hall  - 1969
(Added 13 June 2022)

Val Treloar - Hygiene Book
(Added 15 September 2021)
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Val Treloar - Spelling Note Book
(Added 15 September 2021)
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Shirley Steinwedel
(Added 12 October 2020)

Lindsay Graham Chapman: 1929-1932. War records
(Added 23 August 2020)

Tree planting circa 1958
(Added 23 August 2020)
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Class Photo - Form 4 - 1957
(Added 23 August 2020)

Michael William Mace OAM
(Added 16 August 2020)

George Ernest Scott's Academic Records and Reports - 1928 to 1931
(Added 15 August 2020)

Lindsay Chapman's Records - 1928 to 1932
(Added 15 August 2020)

Class photo 1956
(Added 15 August 2020)

Class photo 1954
(Added 15 August 2020)

Investiture of prefects at girls' school. Circa 1955
(Added 8 August 2020)

Items made in woodwork class by Kel Clarke
(Added 8 August 2020)
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Michael Burge OAM  - Alumnus
(Added 27 July 2020)

Class Photo 1964 - Form 4
(Added 26 July 2020) 

Two colour Class Photos - In the Science Room - 1962
(Added 26 July 2020)
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Class Photo 1962
(Amended spelling of name of Donlevy James Fitzpatrick 26 July 2020)

Class Photo 1C 1970
(Added 26 July 2020)

Class Photo 3B 1969
(Added 11 July 2020)

Class Photo C1 1929
(Added 4 July 2020)

Class Photos 4BC from 1962
(Added 21 June 2020) 

Class Photo 1928
(Added 21 June 2020)

Lorna Morgan's Dressmaking Drafts
(Added 6 June 2020) 

Seaspray 1928 Loaded as a .pdf
(Added 6 June 2020)

Cora Lynn - Brighton Technical School - 12 Sept 1928 - Winnie Bennett, Nancie McAdams, Dorothy Burrows & Audrey Swinson
(Added 30 May 2020)

Girls' school athlete team photo and hat badge. 1946 or 1947.
(Added 30 May 2020) 

Plant pots made in the plumbing shop by Marcus Hellyer in approximately 1980. 
(Added 30 May 2020)

Homework today ... As it is going to be. Cartoon by D Eager.
(Added 30 May 2020)

Photos from 1960 - 1963. Courtesy of Gina Weickhardt nee Wilson
(Added 21 December 2019)

Form 1E, 1960
(Added 21 December 2019)

Form 2D, 1961
(Added 21 December 2019)

Form 3G, 1962
(Added 21 December 2019)

The History of the Owners of the Brighton Girls' Technical School - "Cora Lynn".
​45 Cochrane Street, Brighton
(Added 27 October 2019)

Uniforms: Courtesy of Louis Polgar
(Added 14 September 2019)
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Class photo: 1982 11H - Courtesy of Louis Polgar
(Added 14 September 2019)

Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW)
​M387    Plan No. 85    C. 1905
(Added 24 July 2019)

Cora Lynn, the Mirror and the Public Recreation Reserve
(Added 23 May 2019)
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Ronald James Leech 
(Added 23 May 2019)

Gwendolin Leech 
(Added 23 May 2019)

Florence Annie Swan (Miss)
(Added 27 April 2019)

Annual Presentation of Awards Wednesday 14 December 1977
(Added 8 February 2019)

Photos Courtesy of Claudette Earl - 1978 (year 8).
(Added 8 February 2019)

Class Portrait identified as Paul Breed who sadly passed away in January 2019. Scroll down to photo number 232.
(Added 25 January 2019)
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Brighton Technical School Merit Certificate 1927
(Added 20 December 2018)
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Envelope sent to New York, (14 March 1931), by Anzlie Vivian CHICK, a former member of the drawing and plumbing staff at Brighton Technical School.
(Added 16 December 2018)  Please scroll half way down page to see envelope.

Col. Ernest Walter Weate ED OBE
(Added 11 November 2018)

Fruit Cart made by Jenny Anning in her Form 1 woodwork class in 1972
(Added 8 November 2018)

San Marina - Mansion School - "Mariemont"  - Beaumaris
(Added 3 November 2018)

New Street Brighton Beach Hand Operated Level Crossing.
Sandringham Railway Station and Signal Box. June 1997.
(Added 2 November 2018)

Sandringham: Library Services, Mechanics' Institute, Town Hall, Police Station and Court House
(Added 2 November 2018) 

Plane courtesy of Brian Wolfe
(Added 2 November 2018) 

Bench Vice and G Clamp courtesy of Brian Wolfe
(Added 6 October 2018)

Brighton Technical School Football Team 1929
(Added 22 August 2018)

Winner's Certificate
(Added 18 August 2018)

Cadets: Certificate of Efficiency. Sgt. A. P. Hynes
(Added 18 August 2018)

Brighton Technical School Cadets, 1957 or 1958
(Added 18 August 2018)

Photo 219 identified as Sue Roberston – Thanks to Mico (Mitch) Ecimovic
(Added 20 July 2018)

Class photo 1982. Thanks to Gary Dickens
(Added 15 July 2018)

Class photo 1980. Thanks to Gary Dickens
(Added 15 July 2018)

Some of the links added on 6 July 2018 did not work properly. We believe the links are now fixed. Our apologies for any inconvenience. 
(Added 9 July 2018)
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Who can you name? Class photos from the 1970s and 1980s. Please help.
(Added 6 July 2018)

Class Photos. 1977
(Added 6 July 2018)

Class Photos. 1978
(Added 6 July 2018)

Class photos. Year 1980.  Classes 7A, 7B, 7C and 7D. 
(Added 6 July 2018)

We need your help!   Update
Matthew McCarthy and Louise Hamilton-White
(Added 7 May 2018)

We need your help!   
Matthew McCarthy and Louisa Hamilton-White  
(Added 1 May 2018)

Badges and Memorabilia - includes teaspoon and tie pin 
(Added 28 April 2018)
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Joy St. Claire Hester known as Joy Hester
(Added 5 April 2018)
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Sir Sidney Nolan OM AC
(Added 4 April 2018)

Commander Richard Stanley Veale CMG VRD** RANR  1893-1987
(Added 24 March 2018)

James William Wassall: Member of the Royal Australia Navy and motor-cycle racer.
1903-1932
(Added 24 March 2018)

Submarine J7: From the J Class built for the Royal Navy in 1915. At that time, the fastest submarine class in the World. 
(Added 24 March 2018)

Miss Charlton of Charlton Street Frankston. 
A Tribute to the Frankston Fire Brigade. 
'Ready Aye Ready'
(Added 24 March 2018)
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The School Crest and Badge - Badge no. 000877.
(Added 21 March 2018)
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William Russell McIndoe - (Known as Rus McIndoe)  - Additional photos
(Added 1 March 2018)

William Russell McIndoe - (Known as Rus McIndoe)
(Added 18 February 2018)
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Seaspray 1934
(Added 18 February 2018)

Seaspray 1930
(Added 18 February 2018)

Australian Military Forces, Australian Cadet Corps, Certificate of Efficiency, Cpl. B. Hynes 9th November 1959
(Added 6 February 2018)

Other Historical Research  - Sandringham Sea Baths 
(Added 30 January 2018)
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Francis H. Johnston
(Added 11 January 2018)

Percy Edgar Everett - Principal  - 1932 - 1934
(Added 27 December 2017)

Artwork Design - Joan Couzoff, nee Staindl
(Added 17 December 2017)

Girls' Metal Work
(Added 9 December 2017)

Class Photo - Form 4 A B 1955
(Added 12 November 2017.)
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Letters to the Editor 1991
(Added 12 November 2017.)

Horticulture Exercise Books (1 and 2)- Form 2A - 1946
(Added 3 November 2017.)

Horticulture Exercise Book - Form 1A - 1945
(Added 3 November 2017.)

Sea Spray 1951 - full magazine
(Added 29 October 2017.)

Return to Cora Lynn - The 1931 Cora Lynn Senior Basketball Team. 
(Added 29 October 2017.)

Human Dominoes
(Added 29 October 2017.)
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Cookery - A Short Course for Beginners - Education Department of Victoria - 1942 (with handwritten recipes and annotations).
(Added 31 October 2017.)

Memories of Brighton ‘Tech’, 1943 – 1945.  By Valda Tibbits.
(Added 29 October 2017.)

Flora Margaret Whelan BEM.
(Added 22 October 2017.)

"Cora Lynn" Brighton Technical School (Girls'). Artist : Pham Mahn Cuong. T.O.P. Art Student at Brighton Technical School 1988.
(Added 22 October 2017.)

"Logging Team, Cumberland Forest Area", early 1930s. Water colourist : Allan T. Bernaldo - to see the painting, scroll half way down the page. 
(Added 22 October 2017.)

Sea Spray 1951  - pages 15, 24, 28 and 29
(Added 15 October 2017.)

Marketing in 1984
(Added 15 October 2017.)

Albert Charles King
(Added 8 October 2017.)

Form 4 Snow Trip to Falls Creek - 1974
(Added 29 September 2017.)

1962 Form Photo and photo of Football Team. 
(Added 29 September 2017.)

Cover of the 1971 edition of Seaspray drawn by Annette Donaldson
(Added 29 September 2017.)

Paul Warren, Champion Cross Country Runner
(Added 10 September 2017.)

Seaspray 1958
(Added 9 September 2017.)

Cricket Team 1945
​(Added 9 September 2017.)

Cricket Team 1946
(Added 9 September 2017.)

Cricket Team - 1st XI - Premiers 1947.
(Added 9 September 2017.)

1946 Football Team 
(Added 9 September 2017.)

1947 Football Team. 1st XVIII.
(Added 9 September 2017.)

Class Photograph Form 1 AB 1944
(Added 9 September 2017.)

Scholarship Holders as published on page 10 of the 1966 Seaspray
(Added 9 September 2017.)

Class Photograph 1968
(Added 8 September 2017.)
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Class Photograph 3B 1966
(Added 8 September 2017.)

Class Photograph Form 2AB 1965.
(Added 8 September 2017.)

Brighton Technical School Baseball Premiership side in 1947.
(Added 5 September 2017.)
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Plan of Brighton Technical School. Jubilee 1972.
(Added 5 September 2017.)

4th Form 1975
(Added 5 September 2017.)

Group Photograph taken outside the 'New Science Block', 1975.
(Added 27 August 2017.)

Brighton Cadets on Parade 
(Added 27 August 2017.)

Governor at Brighton. Inspection of School Cadets
(Added 27 August 2017.

Open Space Tussle at Old Brighton Tech School Site
(Added 27 August 2017.)

The glass-house which was used as the horticulture class-room
(Added 27 August 2017.)

Brighton Technical School Hall. Opened 11 December, 1969, at 2.30 pm.
(Added 27 August 2017.)

"Cora Lynn" Estate Purchased1st. October, 1921
(Added 13 August 2017.)

Koelreuteria paniculata tree, palm tree and plaque: Cora Lynn Park.
(Added 7 August 2017.)

Seaspray 1966
(Added 6 August 2017.)

Refillable exercise book
(Added 6 August 2017.)

Year 12 Courses 1986, Open Day 1986 and Folder
(Added 6 August 2017.)

Leo Conroy Steminger  B. A.  - Part 2
(Added 30 July 2017.)

Brighton Technical School boys take cover under their desks. (2nd photo) (ca. 1942).
(Added 30 July 2017.)

Brighton Technical School boys take cover under their desks. (ca. 1942).
(Added 28 July 2017.)

Display including rugs, needle work and leather work. (ca. 1930 - ca. 1939)
(Added 28 July 2017.)

Leo Conroy Steminger B. A. - Part 1
(Added 23 July 2017.)

Demolition and Land Auction - 13 new photos
(Added 23 July 2017.)

Anzlie Vivian Chick - (teacher) - His death at Apalon, Thailand  - Extracts from Anzlie's World War II Service Records and additional research about Apalon.   (Scroll down the page)
(Added 14 July 2017.)

Sports photos  - boys' teams - from the 1920s and 1930s
(Added 9 July 2017.)

Old Boys' Association. 1924 – 1939. Editorial. 
(Added 9 July 2017.)

Brighton Technical School Old Boys Football Club (Vic) Grouse Roots Footy - statistics
(Added 9 July 2017.)

Vivian Anzlie Chick - Teacher who died during World War II - three photos of him with his sports teams. 
(Added 9 July 2017.)

Cadets - 1940
(Added 2 July 2017.)

Demolition - 1995
(Added 2 July 2017.)

Junior Technical School (Girls). Pam Howard. Pupil's Record Book. 1959-1960
(Added 23 June 2017.)
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Junior Technical Certificate. Pamela Joy Howard 1959
(Added 23 June 2017.)

Intermediate Technical Certificate. Pamela Joy Howard
(Added 23 June 2017.)

School Madrigals 1958. Photo courtesy of Pam Howard. 
(Added 23 June 2017.)

1960 Class photograph. Photo courtesy of Pam Howard
(Added 23 June 2017.)

House Captains 1960. Photo courtesy of Pam Howard 
(Added 23 June 2017.)

Group photo courtesy of Pam Howard. 1960
(Added 23 June 2017.)

Certificate of Excellence. Awarded to Pam Howard.
(Added 23 June 2017.)

St. John Ambulance Association certificate. Pamela Howard.
(Added 23 June 2017.)

Spicers cardboard box used for holding Brighton Technical School Exercise Books. 
(Added 22 June 2017.)

Peter Frederick Dyete. Junior School Certificate. 1962.
(Added 18 June 2017.)

Junior Technical School (Boys) Pupil's Record Book. P. Dyete.
(Added 18 June 2017.)

Class photo. Form 3, 1962. Photo courtesy of Peter Dyete. 
(Added 18 June 2017.)

Class photo. Form 2, 1961. Photo courtesy of Peter Dyete. 
(Added 18 June 2017.)
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Class photo. Form 1, 1960. Photo courtesy of Peter Dyete. 
Added 18 June 2017.)
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Items made by Trevor and Colin Dight
(Added 18 June 2017.)
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Items made by Peter Dyete in the Woodwork, Metalwork and Fitting and Turning classes 1960-1962. 
(Added 18 June 2017.)

Class photo 1958
(Moved to 'class photos' section 18 June 2017.)

Class photo 1960
(Moved to 'class photos' section 18 June 2017.)

Class photo 1961
(Moved to 'class photos' section 18 June 2017.)
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Class photo 1945
(Added 7 June 2017.)

Metalwork projects made by Rick Beaty in 1963 or 1964.
(Added 6 June 2017.)
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Items made by Students 
(Added 6 June 2017.)

Horticulture exercise book. Shirley Parsons
(Added 30 May 2017.) 

Drama Program for the 1973 Revue
(Added 30 May 2017.)

Merit Certificate. Shirley Joy (married name Joy). 11 December 1946
(Added 29 May 2017.)

Baby Health Centre Association Certificate. Shirley Parsons (married name Joy)
(Added 29 May 2017.)
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Junior Technical Certificate. Shirley Parsons (married name Joy)
(Added 29 May 2017.)
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​Pupil's Record Book. Shirley Joy (nee Parsons)
(Added 29 May 2017.)

Needlework Samplers made by Shirley Joy (nee Parsons)
(Added 29 May 2017.)

Page from Ron Ackroyd’s Brighton Technical School 1952 Report Book
(Added 29 May 2017.)

Margaret Joan Couzoff, nee Staindl
(Added 28 May 2017.)

Eggs Just Keep Rolling In 
(Added 26 May 2017.)

Class Photos - (Please contact me via the CONTACT link, if you have any Class Photos you would like added to the site.)
(Added 20 May 2017.)

Seaspray 1968
(Added 20 May 2017.)
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$15.00 cheque drawn by Brighton Technical School and made payable to Elizabeth Roane in recognition of her 'Form 4 Award - Commercial'.
(Added 20 May 2017.)

'Dear Elizabeth, On behalf of all teachers and students at B.T.S. I wish to congratulate you on your excellent performance in "My Fair Lady". For us all, W. J. B.'
(Added 20 May 2017.)

31st Annual Swimming Carnival. To be held at the New Olympic Swimming Pool on Thursday, 2nd April, 1970. Host School: Sunshine North Technical School.
(Added 20 May 2017.)

41st Annual Athletics Carnival. To be held at Olympic Park on Thursday, 1st October 1970. Host School: Sunshine North Technical School.
(Added 20 May 2017.)

Seaspray 1960
(Added 20 May 2017.)

Allan Thomas Bernaldo
(Added 19 May 2017.)

Seaspray 1923
(Added 19 May 2017.)
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Seaspray 1928
(Added 19 May 2017.)
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Seaspray 1929
(Added 19 May 2017.)
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Irwin Bismark Topperwien 
(Added 8 May 2017.)

Brighton Technical School. 
(School magazine with silhouettes of children holding hands on front cover. 
Circa late 1960s – early 1970s.)
(Added 7 May 2017.)

Awards. 1973.
(Added 7 May 2017.)

Principal's Annual Report for 1970.
(Added 7 May 2017.)

Annual Presentation of Awards. Monday 17th December, 1973, at 2pm.
(Added 7 May 2017.)
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A La Carte. October 1971. (Program for school play.)
(Added 7 May 2017.)

A Concert by the Students of Brighton Technical School. 1970.
(Added 6 May 2017.)

Jubilee Revue (Review). Including My Fair Lady. 1972.
(Added 6 May 2017.)
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42nd Annual Athletics Festival. Olympic Park. 4th October 1971.
(Added 6 May 2017.)
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Form 1A and 1B - Brighton Technical School - November 1958 (Girls).
(Added 3 May 2017.)
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Form 3C - Brighton Technical School - November 1960 (Girls). 
(Added 3 May 2017.)
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Form 4C - Brighton Technical School - November 1961 (Girls).
(Added 3 May 2017.)
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Combined Sports Day  - October 1958.
(Added 3 May 2017.)
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Photo album courtesy of Elizabeth Lundstrom (nee Roane). 1969 - 1973. Forms 1 to 5. 
(Added 22 April 2017.)

A Concert by the Students of Brighton Technical School. 1970. 
(Added 22 April 2017.)

Official Opening of the Walter Jack Assembly Hall and Presentation of Awards. 11th December 1969
(Added 22 April 2017.)

Big Tum.    August '73
(Added 22 April 2017.)
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Brighton Tech is Fifty-Years-Old... 50th Jubilee Review. July 1972​
(Added 22 April 2017.)

Garry's Double Image. July 1972
(Added 22 April 2017.)

School Goes Hippy for a Day.... A La Carte School Revue. 21 and 22 October, 1971. 
(Added 22 April 2017.)

In Red and White Hotpants, ... 1972?
(Added 22 April 2017.)

Adult Education at Brighton Tech. 1974
(Added 21 April 2017.)

"New Era" at Brighton Tech. 1973.
(Added 21 April 2017.)

After 38 years, Harry is Leaving School. 1969.
(Added 21 April 2017.)

Big Fete will Aid a Brighton School. Saturday 11 October 1969. 
(Added 20 April 2017.)

Jenny's Putting on a Class Style. 1972
(Added 20 April 2017.)

Cossack Dancers 'Raid' a Brighton School for Fun. 22 August 1973
(Added 20 April 2017.)
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Life with a View. 1969.
(Added 20 April 2017.)
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Tech Hopes for a Golden Gift. 1972
(Added 20 April 2017.)

Knock, Knock, Who's There? (It's Rex from Illinois). 1970.
(Added 20 April 2017.)
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It's the Jingle, Jangle, Tinkle Tailors. October 1971.
(Added 17 April 2017.)
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The 1971 Grand Final Footy Brawl Between Brighton Tech. Preston Tech. and the Umpires.   (Added 17 April 2017.)