<Oakleigh Historical Society> has a new building situated in Warrawee Park Oakleigh

The old Oakleigh Post Office has been renovated, added to, and is now home to the Oakleigh Historical Society.

Previously the society occupied a small upstairs room in the Oakleigh Town Hall which is a short walk from these new premises along Drummond street.

Oakleigh Technical School used the old Town Hall as temporary class rooms before the new school was built in 1946. Read Max Thomson's memoirs as he remembers his first times as a technical school student when the school began.

See OTS page

When the school closed in 1991 a modest collection of memorabilia was given to the society for safe keeping.

After moving the archives from the Town Hall the collection has been sorted and can be viewed by arrangement.

This has been done voluntarily by Historians Mrs.May Keeley and Mrs.Helen Gobbie.

Records from the old school plus some donated items include the following:

Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings relating to the school from 1946 to 1989

Enrolment and attendance book 1949

Junior Tech. Certificate register 1947 to 1958

Prefects register 1947 to 1948

School Blazer.

Presentation style Mothers Club register 1965 to 1969-70

Cricket score book 1980 to 1981

Assorted photographs in albums some with names, some unidentified, 1967, 1969 to1973, 1971, 1986,1987, 1988, Hort.1989,1990

The historians at the Oakleigh centre would be grateful for additional contributions to this collection considering how so much history has been lost over the years.

To date the Schools Honour boards remain in private hands with the custodians willing to release them to public view if a suitable safe location can be found. Unfortunately the boards are too large for permanent display at this venue. Hopefully a suitable location can be found in the near future.