Audio tour Broxburn School

Memories good or bad come flooding back when you walk through the door of this wonderful old school. Did you have more than one teacher, he / she had to organize lessons for all grades, 1 through to 8. Sometimes there may be only one student to a class. Remember writing on slates in the lower grades. Lunch break, remember playing hop-scotch, tiggy, hide -and-seek. In the school grounds the horses would be grazing waiting for the end of the school day to take the children back home, sometimes 2 to a horse.

This display is of a small country school. The building operated as the Broxburn School, serving a community in the hills six kilometers to the east of Pittsworth from 1898 to 1959. It was resited and restored in 1975 after service as the local tennis clubhouse.

The school has been gradually re-furnished with original equipment, gifts from local residents, and also the Education Department.

One interesting exhibit is a sandstone rock, deeply grooved, where generations of students sharpened their slate pencils.Old school photos, reading books and many other items in the collection.