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Fortitude Valley SS 150th celebrations
The Fortitude Valley State School in Brookes Street with close to a thousand pupils in its heyday and now one of Brisbane’s smallest schools, is about to be turned upside down in search of some time capsules.
The 150th anniversary of the school’s beginning on 4th March 1861 in a shed near the corner of Ann and Brunswick streets, the site of today’s Royal George hotel, is fast approaching and the sesquicentenary committee seeks the general community’s help to locate two time capsules—one buried about 1950/51, the other in the 1970s. No record of their interment has been found to date.
As part of the “Back to the Valley” celebrations we also desperately need to locate past pupils and teachers for an invitation to morning tea and a commemorative photo shoot on Friday 4th March 2011 at the school. Pupils and teachers will mark the occasion by the unveiling of a plaque commemorating 150 years of education in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley.
It will be necessary to register interest to attend this event. Details at https://sites.google.com/site/fvss150/ . Further enquiries and any details leading to the discovery of the time capsules can be sent to fvss150@gmail.com or telephone Ray Thurlow on (07) 33535547
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