9 September 2025

Former Richmond Girls High, Gleadell & Highett Streets, a curious blend of modernist and domestic – completed in 1954, it was a late design by Percy Everett who had been such a stylish designer up to then, not sure why he went in for pitched roofs in later projects, maybe they were cheaper. Nice rounded bit though, which was the original entrance, and leads into a little courtyard.

The building replaced the original Richmond Central State School, which had become a domestic arts college (ie girls technical school) in 1926. They moved to a new building by the river in 1969 (now Richmond Girls School), and this building became Lynall Hall, a community school, which changed name to Bindjiroo Yaluk Community School this year. And there’s a new Richmond High across the road.

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