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We are all waiting eagerly for your few lines

Posted by ---- on Thursday, January 3, 2013, In : 1960s 

‘……you see we are busy, and I am afraid that writing memoirs for the school website has well and truly taken a back seatfor the time being. Just keeping up with emails, and other normal household chores, takes up a lot of our time, and we also enjoy watching TV In the eveings, especially "old movies" on DVD when there is "nothing much else on". You never know, one day I may get to writing a few lines, if I feel like it....'

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Elwood High in its Early Days

Posted by Anon on Wednesday, April 11, 2012, In : 1960s 

In the 1960s, Elwood High School was a new school of boring, grey, rendered, single-level buildings. The main two were built in 1957 at right angles to each other, in the north-west corner of the site. There was also a cluster of  three smaller buildings of the same style in the south-east corner some distance from the main ones. Its overwhelming feature was the flat concrete space near the buildings and the grassy softball and hockey fields a little further away from the buildings and wind...


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