No more pencils no more books, No more teacher's dirty looks yeah!
Out for summer, Out till fall, We might not come back at all
School's out forever, School's out for summer, School's out with fever, School's out completely!
"Alice Cooper 1972"
Huge tracts of land across the Central Adelaide Plains were surveyed and declared in 1856 including the Hundreds of Alma, Inkerman and Balaklava. At that time the suffering, victories and success of the Crimean War were in the forefront of the public mind and so the major battles of the Black Sea against the Russians were commemorated in the town and hundred names- 8 September 1854 Alma; 13 October 1854 Balaklava; 24 October 1854 Inkerman and the battle of Malakhoff Tower (or hill) 8 September 1855 which led the French forces to take Sevastopol from the Russians in March 1856. Malakhoff was a Russia fort and name just outside of Sevastopol. Although the British, French and Turks finally defeated the Russians casualties were high, especially from wounds and disease and this is the war that saw the rise to prominence of nursing thanks to the work of Florence Nightingale.
Although the Hundred of Inkerman was declared in 1856 little settlement followed until the 1870s. The government school at Malakhoff was built in stone and opened in 1892. As the only public building in the district it was used for public meetings, socials and dances etc. The school closed in 1942 and has been derelict for many years. But after 78 years of closure it still stands and has been started to be restored recently.
To find the cache simply look at the new Timber fence In front of the school and count the amount of poles from the gate to the corner.
If there are 10 Posts go to - S 34° 13.568′ E 138° 13.697′
If there are 12 Posts go to - S 34° 13.653′ E 138° 13.815′
If there are 14 Posts go to - S 34° 13.701′ E 138° 13.711′
Malakhoff School in Approximately 1925