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FORMER KENTBRUCK SCHOOL
PORTLAND-NELSON ROAD, MOUNT RICHMOND VIC 3305
FORMER KENTBRUCK SCHOOL
PORTLAND-NELSON ROAD, MOUNT RICHMOND VIC 3305
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FORMER KENTBRUCK SCHOOL - History
The school was noted to be a building with a school room with 2 rooms as living space, located 2 miles east of James Johnstone’s property in Kentbruck. On September 28 1880, Sarah Jane Wadmore was appointed head teacher of the Kentbruck school. Kentbruck was otherwise known as “The Coast” prior to Wadmore opening the school there (Wadmore 1933). Wadmore moved from Bacchus Marsh to the family home in Cape Bridgewater with her mother and brother, which was 20 miles away from the Kentbruck State School. The building was wooden, removed from “The Dens”; it had two small living rooms, iron chimneys and two high windows (Wadmore 1933). The school was situated on a hill, with a swamp at its front and “very high ti-tree” home to wallaby, water rats and platypus (Wadmore 1933). The back, north and south of the school was surrounded by the “Range”, with stringy barks and “mobs of kangaroo, flocks of emus, and dingoes” (Wadmore 1933).Wadmore (1933) lists the following family names that she recalls teaching; Hedditchs, Malseeds, Kings, Jonstones, Bilstons, Smiths, Wheelers, Buckles, Weevins. Wadmore (1933) opened two new schools on the Bridgewater Road during her teaching career; Kentbruck and Trewalla.FORMER KENTBRUCK SCHOOL - Interpretation of Site
The structure was used as a school in what was at the time a remote early settlement within the State of Victoria. The site is currently located within a pine plantation.
Heritage Inventory Description
FORMER KENTBRUCK SCHOOL - Heritage Inventory Description
Personal communication with intergenerational resident of the area Herbert Black identified this as the former location of the school. The exact location of the former Kentbruck School could not be located during the survey. Ground surface visibility was poor due to the dense grass cover and no exposed footings or other features were apparent (Photograph 1 & Photograph 2). One example of c.1850s blue and white ceramic was located on the sand track adjacent to the site location providing archaeological evidence of early European land use of the site (Photograph 3).
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