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It’s back to the classroom for Territory kids this week. And it would have been pretty tricky to wag a day or two if you were in this class. Luckily they look like a pretty committed bunch. This was the full enrolment for Year 5 in Tennant Creek in 1954 under the care of headmaster Mr Ashenden. Facebook sleuths managed to identify all the students (now in their seventies!) as: Katherine MacLean, Ann-Marie Stokes, Heather Campbell, Dean Pilgrim, Bonnie Hunter, Clare Harris and Elizabeth Wade.


Image: Bonnie Thompson, Tennant Creek Friends Facebook Group


Published: 3 February 2019

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Forgotten Territory was a weekly photo column of historic images in the Northern Territory News which I curated from 2016 until 2019 supported by the collections of the Northern Territory Library and other cultural institutions around Australia, as well as local history Facebook groups. 

Click on the images to read the story behind the image.

Warning: May contain images of people who have died.

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