CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF 

 

​LILYDALE HIGH SCHOOL

100 Years of Lilydale High School

2019 will see us celebrate 100 years of Lilydale High School. Plans have begun to make the centenary celebrations our biggest yet!

As part of our celebrations, we would like to gather information on LHS alumni. If you, or a family member attended Lilydale High School we would love to hear from you to share your school memories.  

Any hard copies of photographs, school uniforms, awards, certificates, badges or any other materials we can use for the celebrations, would be gratefully received at the School Office.

Melissa McMillan

Assistant Principal

Take a look back in TIME!!

Lilydale High School Basketball Team, c. 1920

Girls listed as Queenie Burton, Alice Baird, Murtle (?) Saunders, Dorothy Hill, Marjorie Phillips (front) ball on knee Phyllis Pattman (back) Norah Wright, Marie Burton.

History of Item - Photo loaned for copying from Dorothy Aumann nee Hill.  Dorothy Hill grew up in Lilydale and was one of the first pupils to attend Lilydale Higher Elementary School.

Did you know?

• Lilydale High School was founded in 1919, at which stage it was housed in a single building not located on the current school grounds.
• The Lilydale Post Office opened on 1 September 1860 as Brushy Creek, and was renamed Lillydale in 1861 and Lilydale around 1872.
• The Lilydale Hotel opened in 1862.
• The Railway came to town with the opening of the station in 1882.

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THE ARRIVAL AT LILYDALE

16 MAY 1901

(The Argus Newspaper 

 Melbourne,  Vic: 1848-1957)

In honour of the Duchess's visit, several

townspeople decorated the Lilydale Station

with greenery, flags, &c. Some time before

the hour appointed for the Royal train to

arrive the station was crowded with people

anxious to get a glimpse of Her Royal Highness.

On the arrival of the train hearty

cheers were given for the Duchess of

Cornwall and York, who appeared on the

platform. Councillor A B Taylor (president

of the Lilydale Shire Council) presented

the Duchess with a beautiful bunch

of flowers, which her Royal Highness

graciously received. Amid much cheering,

the train moved off on the journey to

Healesville.

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