1892 - Public School - Nowra, NSW, Australia
S 34° 52.704 E 150° 36.005
56H E 280657 N 6137814
This section of the local School was built in 1892. It was established in 1862.
Waymark Code: WMY2HT
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 04/07/2018
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The gated entrance to the Primary School has on the right-hand brick post a scalloped bronze plaque with:
1862
1962
Below which is a rectangular bronze plaque for the Centenary of the School. It reads:
1962
Erected by
Public Subscription
to Commemorate
The Centenary of Education
in Nowra
From the Australian Heritage Database, there is just a short description for the Nowra Primary School:
"…A single-storey brick building (now painted), with a gabled corrugated iron roof and verandah. The two rooms and porch at the north-east Corner were built in 1865 as the 'first national school'. Architect Henry Robertson. Considerably altered and extended to the west with a larger-scale brick wing in 1892, architect W. Kemp. …"
- Australian Heritage Database: Plunket Street Precinct, Nowra, NSW
Address: 74 Plunket Street, NSW, 2451, Australia
Visited: 0855 Monday 2 October, 2017
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