Centennial Park Mural

In the main street of Loch, opposite the CFA is a small park known as Centennial Park.

The Loch Village public toilets are found here and they would have to be the cleanest kept toilets in the South Gippsland Shire. They include a seperate disabled toilet.

The walls of the public toilets are adorned with a stunning mural , commisioned by the Loch Community Development Association as a tourist feature and created by Wonthaggi painter Dennis Laversha.

Dennis is a well-known mural artist throughout Gippsland, his work adorning many public buidlings that have even become the focus of dedicated 'Laversha bus tours!

The mural on the front wall of the toilets in Centennial Park sees a horse pulling a plough on the hills so onlookers can make the connection with the real plough displayed in front of the toilets by the Loch Historical group. The plough has featured heavily in Loch & Districts farming history.

The large side wall of the toilets features a mural called: Postcards from Loch-'Then' and 'Now'. The 20 postcards represent aspects from Lochs recent and past history.

Loch is a pioneering settlement more than 125 years old and the mural reflects  a rich tapestry of images from within that span of time.

Visitors will discover pictures that include: a 1920's street scene showing a kerosene lamp, a pine tree taken from Gallipoli and planted in Loch by the local RSL to honour fallen soldiers from World War 1, the Loch Memorial Reserves Historic entrance gates and Suspension bridge, the SS Loch which was a float that Loch Primary school entered in the 1981 Moomba parade, the 2000 Sydney Olympics Torch Relay which went through Loch on Aug 7 that year, Lochs Annual Quilt Hanging, its historic buildings, the Lions market, the CFA Road Rescue Unit, an old newspaper..the Poowong & Bass Valley Express which was a forerunner of the current Loch Express, a truck from the Korumburra Butter factory, the former Loch Butter factorys Arum Brand, and a muscular saint recalling the now defunct Loch Football Club which folded in 1993. The colourful array also shows a re-enactment of a mail delivery from the Loch Post Office, the Loch Brass Band, a family holding a giant Gippsland earthworm, the 1930's fairy garden and kids swimming at the historic Loch swimming hole on the Allsop Creek.

There is so much to learn about Loch just from visiting its public toilets!

They are the best looking dunnys in South gippsland by far, so stop and spend a penny it will be well worth it!