place

Northcote Farm School

1937 establishments in AustraliaBacchus MarshDefunct schools in Victoria (state)Educational institutions disestablished in 1979Educational institutions established in 1937
History of immigration to AustraliaUse Australian English from January 2015
Rowsley Lady Northcote Camp
Rowsley Lady Northcote Camp

The Northcote Farm School (NFS) (also known as the Lady Northcote Farm School) was a farm school built at Glenmore, near Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, in 1937. It was constructed for the education of child migrants, of whom it received 273 from 1937 to the 1970s; it was closed from 1944 to 1948 due to the decline in child migrants during World War II. It was shut down in the late 1970s due to the redistribution of funds, and now operates as a school camp. NFS is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register, as having "historical, architectural and social significance to the State of Victoria".

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Northcote Farm School (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Northcote Farm School
Glenmore Road, Shire of Moorabool

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Website Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Northcote Farm SchoolContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N -37.716 ° E 144.317 °
placeShow on map

Address

Lady Northcote Recreation Camp

Glenmore Road
3340 Shire of Moorabool (Glenmore)
Victoria, Australia
mapOpen on Google Maps

Website
camps.ymca.org.au

linkVisit website

Rowsley Lady Northcote Camp
Rowsley Lady Northcote Camp
Share experience

Nearby Places

Pioneer Women's Memorial Avenue

The Pioneer Women's Memorial Avenue, located in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia commemorates the contributions of women to the development of the area. The Avenue was originally planted in 1936, the centenary of the settlement of Bacchus Marsh, by the local branch of the Country Women's Association. An avenue of Claret Ash trees was planted on the Western Highway, each tree honouring an individual woman settler. The CWA provided the trees, and the local council provided the tree-planting labour. Name plaques for each tree were paid for by public donations. A total of 276 trees were planted - a tree for every woman who was born or lived in the area prior to 1890. Indigenous Kulin women were named and recognised alongside white women. In 1995, a report by the Victorian Heritage Register showed that only 15-17 of the original trees had survived. In 2008, the Bacchus Marsh CWA applied for and received grants from the state government's Centenary of Women's Suffrage funds and the Shire of Moorabool council to re-develop the memorial. A rotunda, featuring information boards on the women commemorated in the avenue, and a monument, were added at Stamford Hill. These were unveiled in a ceremony on 2 August 2008. In December 2009, the Moorabool council nominated the Bacchus Marsh CWA's work on erecting the rotunda for the Community Event of the Year. In 2015, the Bacchus Marsh CWA published a book of biographies of the women commemorated in the avenue.