Local Government
Victoria Plains
Region
Wheatbelt
Bindi Bindi - Yerecoin Rd Yerecoin
Victoria Plains
Wheatbelt
Constructed from 1927
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| Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 27 Oct 1998 | Category 4 | |
The school has associations with the establishment of education facilities in Yerecoin, and subsequent associations with teachers students and the community. It has a sense of place for generations of students, and adds to the townscape character of Yerecoin.
Timber framed and clad with weather board dado and fibrocement sheeting, with north facing verandahs, and a corrugated iron roof.
In 1927, Mr J Duggan, the spokesman for the Yerecoin residents, started lobbying the Education Department for a school in Yerecoin. A subsequent application listed 11 children in the area, and requested a site near the railway siding. The number of children was not sufficient, but further to a visit and a new family with two children, the inspector selected a site and approved the establishment of a school. The site was Loc 936, agricultural land, held by John Thomas Waters, but it belonged to the Midland Railway Company. They resumed the land, and granted for the school with some payment of compensation. In April 1928, Mr Henry Farr was contracted to relocated Coondle School to Yerecoin Siding. The school opened on 29 May 1928. The School was closed at some time, and reopened in 1946. Mr McKenzie the Yerecoin butcher picked up children from Piawaning in his Chevrolet utility, to keep up the student numbers, and keep the school open in Yerecoin. It closed again in 1950. Part of the existing school complex was relocated from Piawaning in c1978.
Integrity: Intact or redeemable Authenticity: Medium degree
| Ref ID No | Ref Name | Ref Source | Ref Date |
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| Erickson R; "The Victoria Plains". | Shire of Victoria Plains | 1971 |
Individual Building or Group
| Epoch | General | Specific |
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| Present Use | EDUCATIONAL | Combined School |
| Original Use | EDUCATIONAL | Combined School |
| Type | General | Specific |
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| Wall | TIMBER | Weatherboard |
| General | Specific |
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| SOCIAL & CIVIC ACTIVITIES | Education & science |
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