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| Gardeners Road
Public School was established in January 1883 when John Maloney
opened the school in a temporary wooden school room designed to
accommodate 200 pupils in one room. It was very different in the
early 1920s when the enrolment climbed to 1700 pupils and the
children were crammed into the main building and its corridors
and a collection of temporary wooden classrooms and
weather sheds.
Beginnings
In 1880 the area around the
junction of Gardeners and Botany Roads was settled by a scattered
population of market gardeners, with huge tracks of vacant land
and a few pockets of workers who were employed in the factories
which had begun to be established in the district. The Cooper
Estate was to dominate the early history of Gardeners Road
Public School and its sub division 30 years later was to result
in an enormous rise in the school's enrolment. |
Gardeners Rd Public School
C1915 class 1C |
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