This busy stretch of Burwood Highway is now synonymous with education. Before that it was home to the Albers flower farm.
Albers farm was established in the 1930s and was well known throughout the district for its bulbs and supplied many city florists. Today, Deakin University stands on ground that used to produce jonquils and daffodils.
Did you know …
1856: A Wesleyan Day School is established on the corner of Ireland Street and Burwood highway. This was later replaced by a new state school.
1938: Presbyterian Ladies College relocates its junior school to the corner of Elgar Road and Burwood Highway.
1951: The Education Department purchases Albers farm
1952: Mount Scopus, the first Jewish day school in Australia, is moved to Burwood.
1954: Burwood Teachers College is opened on the former Albers farm.
Bennetswood Primary is opened.
Bennetswood Primary and Burwood Primary were used as ‘rural training schools’ for student teachers in the 1950s and 1960s.
1956: Burwood High is opened.
1958: PLC moves its senior school to its current site.
(Source: City of Whitehorse Heritage Trail signboard found at S 37 50.957 E 145 06.651)
Now about the cache, this should be an easy find (especially if you spot the clues in the poem). Please make sure that the lid is tight and secure before returning it back upright into its hidey spot with its camo in place.
BYO pen.
Space for small swappables.
Fragrant flowers to flowering minds
by Cherryslice88
Fragrant flowers to flowering minds
Society’s foundations educational finds
Seeker of truth, Aged or youth
Explore, examine, educated sleuth
Bedrock of society
Fine minds soar
Children to adults
A trust indeed, not a chore
“Teach a child the way he should go
And when he is old he will not depart from it”
Moulding minds shaping hearts
For artful pleasure
Or nation’s smarts
Moral compass must sure instil
Education without conscience is sure to kill
Life to live and heart to bare
Whence I come,
Thence depart,
What’s my purpose?
What’s my part?
Questing for meaning
Seeking direction
Destiny journey
Constructing connection
Treasure of a kind
Sighted mind
Hidden in hewn sand
With strength of rock
Pieces of eight
Desirous shapen block.