Westbury took a trip down memory lane to recognise 180 years of continuous education and to remember the primary school's history of an above ground swimming pool, fire places and a dog named Toby.
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In the 1940s and 50s the school had an open fire place in every room and pupils would collect and cut the wood, they also ran an incinerator to burn all paper and wood waste and they marched to class each day.
They also had Toby, an English Springer Spaniel, who would roam the grounds and warm up in front of the fireplaces before scratching at the door to be let outside by a student at the nearest desk.
The Westbury180 event on Friday encouraged past students, teachers and principals to share these stories as Westbury Primary School principal Christine Brown recounted the schooling history of the town.
She said in 1854 a government school opened and there had been continuous education ever since.
However the exact site of the school had varied before the corner of Dexter and Taylor Streets was chosen in 1885.
At one time the school owned nearby paddocks and half would be sewn with oats each year and the other would be used to house two or three cows for their milk to sell and fundraise for the school.
The school also had an above ground swimming pool at one point, after it was built in 1986.
Another piece of Westbury educational history was created by the event's celebrations and the re-interment of the 1989 time capsule alongside a 2019 time capsule will preserve this year's memory.
