Old school yard: Gowrie School, one of the great little Bush Schools in the Tamworth district that no longer operate, pictured here in 1922. The teacher David Rynd with wife and child on the left. Photo: Supplied
Many Bush Schools have served the Tamworth district over the years, going back as early as 1860 with a school opening at Goonoo Goonoo Station, to be followed not long after by Bowling Alley Point (1869), Cockburn River (1870) and Upper Dungowan (1874).
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