A search has located the original Morisset School bell from 1891.
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The find was made just in time for the bell to become the centrepiece in the school’s 125th anniversary next month.
The bell is being restored this week, and will be rung by the youngest and oldest former students at a school assembly on Friday, September 9.
Author Doug Saxon, who is writing the book Morisset 1891-2016 to mark the school’s anniversary, said it would be an historic moment.
“It will be the first time in more than 30 years that the bell has been heard at Morisset School,” Mr Saxon said.
It turns out the prized bell had been repurposed as a front door bell for the former school librarian, Jill Page.
In 1985, Morisset Public School moved from its original site (where the high school now stands) to new school buildings in Terrigal Street.
“There was an electronic bell in the new school, so the old school bell was given to Jill Page, the school librarian, by the then principal, Bill Niland,” Mr Saxon said.
