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Lower Light School

2012-08-30T13:45:11Z

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|SubCategory=Government
|Locality=Lower Light
|Geocoordinates=-34.533624037972, 138.45955610275
|DateEstablished=c. 1860
|Date approximate=No
|CeasedOperation=1963
|Date approximate2=No
|BusinessPurpose=School
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Although these early settlers were well educated themselves such was not the case with the children. Coming to an area which was unsettled where homes had to be built, a living to be made and with their time and means thus expended, a school was a distant vision on the horizon. However, to overcome the difficulty Mr Jimmy Johnson at Korunye employed a governess as did Mr Town at Lower Light. Local children attended at these homes and a fee was charged for each child taught and this helped with the salary of the governess. Secondary education was rare until the early twentieth century.

Early in Lower Light's history there was a small wooden structure, built in the 1860s, on the church grounds. It was used for church, Sunday school and day school. From 1874 until 1890 the teacher's fees were paid by the parents, the children each taking so many pennies to school on Friday. A combined school and residence was established by the Education Department in 1881, the total cost being £505, 16 shillings and 3 pence.

In 1891 the first salary from the Education Department was received by Mr Alfred M. Stapley when a Bill was passed through parliament introducing 'free education'.

Children had attended at these schools as far away as Frosts in the Dublin area, from the Mallala road, as far as Mr Arthur Pratt's and all along the river to the west.<br>

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|+ '''Lower Light School Teachers <br>'''
|-
| 1876-77
| Daniel Coleman
| 1923-30
| Phyllis M. Fisher
|-
| 1878
| Manton Jackson
| 1931-37
| Harold J. Donnelly
|-
| 1880-89
| Duncan McNaughton
| 1938-40
| George Geddes
|-
| 1900-09
| Alfred M. Stapley
| 1941
|
Florence Bigg

Leonard Vickery

Dulcie Battain

|-
| 1910-12
| Ada Langdon
| 1941-45
| Dorren Ware
|-
| 1913-18
| Kate M. Kaine
| 1945-49
| Sylvia Schwalbie
|-
| 1919
| Andrew G. Brown
| 1950-58
| Joseph Costello
|-
| 1920
| Victor Slee
| 1959-62
| Kenneth Clare
|-
| 1821
| William J. Hahn
| 1963
| Closed 5 February 1963
|-
| 1922
| Alfred W. H. Lockyer
|
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|}
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|Sources=''Life around the Light: A history of the Mallala District Council area'' compiled by Two Wells. Mallala and District History Book Committee. Community Development Board of the Council District of Mallala. (Mallala. S. Aust.) 1985.,Mallala Museum research notes
|FlickrID=3841684705,3858128910,4817044340,5201186929
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{{Memory|Mark & Kay Boon bought the Old School House in 1993, and renovated it extensively, particularly by building a new bathroom and laundry.
The classroom, which had been partitioned many years before to create two bedrooms and a passage, was restored by removing the partitions, thus creating a kitchen/living room.
Family members now live in the school house, surrounded on two sides by council reserve with hundreds of sheltering trees.|Shortstuff
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Two Wells Melodrama Group

2012-08-30T13:39:22Z

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|SubCategory=Community Service
|StreetName=Old Port Wakefield
|StreetSuffix=Road
|Locality=Two Wells
|Geocoordinates=-34.59621827117138, 138.516318208008
|DateEstablished=1982
|Date approximate=No
|Date approximate2=No
|EstablishedBy=Les & Bet Williams
|BusinessPurpose=Theatre arts
}}
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Concerts and musical productions have always been part of the life of Two Wells. A brass band performed late in the 19th century. Piano teachers were always in demand and elocution and singing a priority. 

During World War Two, concerts were arranged to raise funds for the war effort.

Two Wells Melodrama Group holds one theatre production each year, and in 2011 held a one-night "Comedy Night."
Founded by Les "Nig" and Bet Williams, the Group's first performance was over two nights in April 1982, at the old Two Wells Institute. Since 1985 all productions have been held in the Two Wells Community Centre.
Most productions since then have been locally produced and performers and production crew are also mainly local residents from the Two Wells and Lewiston areas.
The Group received Mallala Council's Community Event of the Year award during Australia Day celebrations in 2002; and in November 2009 received a SA Great Regional Award in the Arts Category for Barossa region.
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Two Wells Melodrama Group

2012-08-30T13:34:52Z

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|SubCategory=Community Service
|Date approximate=No
|Date approximate2=No
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== ==

Concerts and musical productions have always been part of the life of Two Wells. A brass band performed late in the 19th century. Piano teachers were always in demand and elocution and singing a priority. 

During World War Two, concerts were arranged to raise funds for the war effort.

Two Wells Melodrama Group holds one theatre production each year, and in 2011 held a one-night "Comedy Night."
Founded by Les "Nig" and Bet Williams, the Group's first performance was over two nights in April 1982, at the old Two Wells Institute. Since 1985 all productions have been held in the Two Wells Community Centre.
Most productions since then have been locally produced and performers and production crew are also mainly local residents from the Two Wells and Lewiston areas.
The Group received Mallala Council's Community Event of the Year award during Australia Day celebrations in 2002; and in November 2009 received a SA Great Regional Award in the Arts Category for Barossa region.
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