Bulls Museum Staff (from Left) Treasurer Tony Simm, Secretary Helen Cooper and longtime volunteer Jenny Meads.
Bulls Museum Staff (from Left) Treasurer Tony Simm, Secretary Helen Cooper and longtime volunteer Jenny Meads.
Bulls Museum secretary Helen Cooper admits she is very proud of all the help that has come in from the community to feature the 150 Anniversary of Bulls Primary School.
The small and compact museum is a treasure trove of Bulls memorabilia and the new exhibition will keep you readingand studying the old photographs for an hour or more,she said.
As soon as the exhibition was planned locals were in with envelopes full of old school photographs, newspaper art articles, old text books and even an old school roll from1896 in superb condition featuring the distinctive copperplate writing from those days.
Helen said it's just wonderful the number of people who visit the museum daily and the school exhibition was bringing groups from everywhere, she said.
"Many are former pupils, there are a few teachers and they come in and study the class pictures remembering the old days when they were at school. Some of the conversations have been great."
The days from 1880 school region features pictures of the First XV, little girls wearing smock pinnies,stern looking headmasters and non-nonsense teachers.
There are fragile old yellowed school journals, a few Janet and John books, special school recipe books, a small wooden desk with an inkwell, old uniforms giving the exhibition of the sense of long reigning wonderful local families.
There were stories and pictures about the school milk scheme that ran from 1937 -1969. Museum Treasurer Tony Simms said he clearly remembers the days of the wooden shelters by the school gates where the milkman loaded the crates of the small milk bottles and the designated monitors were sent to the gates each day to carry the crates in.
