This weatherboard cottage was built around 1889 by the Wallarah Coal-mining Company to house its mineworkers.
Mr Bert (Charlie) Sperring was the first remembered tenant and then
Jack and Enid Price lived in the house. This Mr Price was a descendant of Tom Price; one of the nine miners brought out from England in 1888 by the Wallarah Coal-mining Company when it first began its operations in Catherine Hill Bay. In 1893 his son Tom also came out from England to work in the mine and moved to Mine Camp.
Jack Price was known by his nickname of ‘Bondy’. His wife Enid was a Farraway sister to Lettie, and had lived her early life in Clarke Street.
In 1964 the Mine Company ‘Coal & Allied’ subdivided some of its land. This house and land was determined to be bought for 350 pounds by Mr J W F Price. This was a larger block of land measuring 62 feet and 8 ½ inches at the front and 69 and 1, 1/4 inches at the rear. The length of the block on the eastern boundary was 174 feet 10 inches and 179 feet 8 and 7/8 inches on its western boundary.
Enid in 2006 moved to her daughter Charmaine’s home and the house has been sold.