{"id":2342,"date":"2018-12-20T11:40:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T01:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/?page_id=2342"},"modified":"2018-12-21T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T02:45:16","slug":"hope-springs-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/about-us\/hope-springs-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope Springs History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

History of\nBurnbank School<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope\nSprings Eternal is the site of the former Burnbank School.  The building is heritage listed and a part of\nthe local area\u2019s history, as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nThe community at the small settlement of Mount Barker Springs, 3 km east\nof Mount Barker, joined together to build the school house in 1862. It was a\nfee paying school (sixpence to one shilling per week) and designed by its first\nSchool master, Mr Scheckleford on land donated by Mr John Frame. The local\nchildren were educated at Burnbank School until 1910. The building then\nremained empty for 10 years, when it, and the surrounding land was purchased\nback by the Frame family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among\nits notable students in the very early days were Sir Langdon Bonython,\njournalist and philanthropist and Dr C T Madigan, a Rhodes Scholar, Geologist\nand member of Douglas Mawson’s Antarctic expedition.
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\nThe School House is constructed of beautiful local stone. In\nparts these walls are 475mm thick keeping the building well insulated all year\nround.  Initials have been carved into the\nstone by mischievous past students. Originally the school house had a timber\nshingle roof. There is now a colourbond roof covering the shingles, but they\nstill provide extra insulation to the school house which has now been converted\ninto this heavenly home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nThe headmaster and his wife lived in the front section having his sitting\nroom with an open fireplace, and his bedroom at the front of the house. Two\nsteps lead down from the timber floored hallway into the large Kitchen which is\nnow disposed as the family bathroom, with an old cast iron claw foot bath,\ntoilet and vanity.
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The large main room was the school-room \u2013 though it would have doubled as the sleeping area for the family\u2019s six children.\u00a0Where an old lean to used to be for the students to hang their bags, there is now a laundry and additional bedroom built on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n