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Prepared and compiled by Martin Klabbers
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(left) The whole school enthusiastically celebrating 'Empire Day' 24 May 1910. The original school was located well out of town and called Conneawre East, later it moved to a site closer in on Geelong Road and finally to it's current site in the early 1950's |
| (right) Members of the Mt. Colite Hotel staff seated in front of the hotel in 1912. The first building on the site was the Mt. Colite Coffee Palace, later to become a licensed hotel under the management of Mr George Golightly. This building burnt down in 1929 and the existing structure on the corner of Bridge Road and Ewing Blyth Drive replaced it. |  |
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(left) Members of the Tait family enjoying an afternoon on the back beach, a section of beach on Bass Straight between The Bluff and 13th Beach. The photo was taken prior to the First World War in about 1913 |
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| (above left) The river along the camping ground in 1955 and (above right) looking back along the same bank toward the hotel in 1920 | |
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(above left) The river bank as it was in 1930, and (above right) as it is now in 2003. During the 40's and 50's, erosion was taking place threatening to wash away the caravan park, so a retaining wall was put in place.
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