Markwood Primary School

13 Feb

The Markwood Primary School was busy with kids for 138 years. "The school was closed in March 2007 when the last student left." This school is on the Snow Road, which connects the Hume Highway to the Great Alpine Road, and then on to Bright, Porepunkah etc, or Beechworth if you turn the other way. Anyway, I've driven past it for 45 years, but for the first time last week I stopped. There are sadder things in life than an abandoned primary school, there are. But, still, walking around, it brought on a certain, lost, feeling. I saw some drawings. I saw a rubber ball.

I posted this on social media and one response was: Markwood girls. Tough netballers.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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