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Stories from Lauriston
Our History
On 23 January 1901 a notice appeared in the
Argus
newspaper announcing the opening of a Girls’ High School: Lauriston in Erskine street, Malvern. Twelve girls entered the school on 11 February that year. And the Lauriston story began.
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