Newsworthy Events
Goulburn Evening Penny Post
Sat 21 Apr 1894
Page 6
Crookwell Gazette
Wed 9 Oct 1895
Page 2
Goulburn Herald
Mon 9 Mar 1903
Page 2
The ball at Cotta Walla - 1895
Confidently assumed to be the Cotta Walla Schoolhouse because Mrs Baxter (resident there) provided the catering.
The classroom is 8m x 6m and thirty couples including orchestra members would have been a tight squeeze. I assume the piano was an upright.
The schoolhouse at this time was still as originally built, with the original small kitchen with open fire for cooking and barely room for a small table. It would have been an occupational health and safety nightmare just preparing a family meal, and so catering for 60 people with those facilities and to do it without injury would have been a major organisational achievement. To alleviate just a little of the catering effort, not take up space that could be used for dancing, and protect the crockery and glassware from any overly enthusiastic activities at the other end of the verandah I posit that the parlour, which was between the kitchen and the verandah, was used to arrange and present the "excellent" offerings coming out of the kitchen. Attendees would have been able to mingle under the verandah with direct access to both the classroom (ballroom) and the parlour (catering).
The evening of Friday the 4th of October was only one day after the full moon and the grounds would have been naturally and sublimely illuminated. That month is still fairly cold in the evenings so, with the doors wide open, the fireplaces in both the classroom and the parlour would have been raging.
No doubt throughout the evening there would have been regular visits to the outhouses of which there were two, quite attractive little buildings in bluestone with limestone quoins to match the schoolhouse, one for females approximately 30m away on the near side of the playground and one for males approximately 70m away on the far side of the playground. Both well stocked with suitably divided past editions of the Crookwell Gazette.
Goulburn Evening Penny Post
Thu 5 May 1910
Page 4
Goulburn Evening Penny Post
Sat 14 Nov 1914
Page 5
Goulburn Evening Penny Post
Thu 26 Apr 1917
Page 4
Goulburn Evening Penny Post
Thu 10 Jan 1918
Page 2
Goulburn Evening Penny Post
Tue 6 May 1919
Page 4
Goulburn Evening Penny Post
Thu 18 Jan 1923
Page 4
Daily Herald (Adelaide, SA )
Wed 24 Jan 1923
Page 4
Geraldton Guardian (WA)
- Tue 6 Feb 1923
- Page 2
Goulburn Evening Penny Post
Sat 9 May 1925
Page 8
Taralga Echo
Fri 14 Oct 1927
Page 2
Taralga Echo
Fri 28 Oct 1927
Page 3
Goulburn Evening Penny Post
Thu 10 Nov 1932
Page 1