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School Teachers House (fmr) and Garden

Location 1 St Johns Road, Warburton VIC 3799 - Property No 69111 File Number 687 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] School Teachers House (former)

Statement of Significance

The former School Teacher's House at 1 St. Johns Road has high local significance as the home during the First World War years of William Bleakley popular Head Teacher of State School No. 1485 at Warburton from 1907-1918. Bleakley set up a School Committee at Warburton, said to have been an early model for the modern school committee system, and established a pine plantation, orchard and agricultural experimental plots at the school, which predated the Young Farmers Clubs movement. He later taught Manning Clark, the distinguished Australian historian, during his early years at Belgrave State School.