MEMORABILIA 

UNIFORM COLLECTION

This Cadet Officer's Cap was donated by Major-General Peter Dunn AO, MID (Class of 1964).

We have a permanent display space for our uniform collection located in the MERC at McKinnon Road Campus.  Please contact Melanie Lynch at the College if you find uniform items at your house (or perhaps your family home) and you're willing to part with a piece of your school memorabilia.

Thanks to Jenny (Good) Cooke for sourcing and setting up this historical display.

By clicking on an image, you can enlarge it and then scroll through the photos.

PHOTOS OF THE ORIGINAL BUILDINGS OF MCKINNON HIGH SCHOOL

We would like to receive photos taken in the 1950s and 60s to complete a permanent display of the school’s development.

Please contact Melanie Lynch if you can help.

HAPPY MEMORIES

As a Baby Boomer growing up in McKinnon, albeit on its eastern fringe, it had everything a boy needed.

Our family of four moved there from a small flat in Elwood to a three-bedroom, brick-veneer house on a quarter acre block in a dead-end street, off Thomas Street, with a small park at one end, where we played cricket and football, if not in the street.

We moved there not to be in the zone of McKinnon High School, but to have room for the next addition to the family. All the kids in the street went to school at Ormond State - with class sizes of 45 - either on their bikes or walked; no parent drop offs in those days.

We were not interested in having a sourdough bakery or a bus to Chadstone, we had the milk bar that sold a bag of lollies for 20p (20c) and an icy pole or, better still, an ice-cream in a cone.

Bruce Waxman, Malvern East

Article appeared in The Age newslpaper