This weatherboard and galvanised iron cottage was built between 1908-1915. The Wallarah Coal-mining Company built this cottage to house its mineworkers.
Mr and Mrs Anstruther are the first remembered tenants.
Milton Tooth who was a schoolteacher at the local school lived here.
Next came the Corrigan family. There were two boys and three girls. Merle, one of the daughters, lived most of the time as a daughter to Manie Brace and his wife as they had no children. Merle eventually married Bill Eckles who came from Swansea.
The Spring family, (Grandparents of Bill Spring) were the next tenants.
Bill and Gloria Hooey lived here with their children Janice and Richard. When Gloria left Bill stayed in the house and the children went to live with their grandmother Celia (Nin) in number 52. When Bill died Bill and Zena Hancock moved in from a house in Federal City. They had two children Claire and Robert. Robert lived in the house until he was 17. Patricia Richardson also lived here until she was 16 and then moved to Gloucester
In 1964 the Coal Company ‘Coal & Allied’ subdivided some of their land. The Company determined that Mr W E Hancock would purchase the house and land for 400 pounds.
Clare Hancock later married Trevor Knowles and when Zena died Trevor’s brother Wayne and his wife Christine (Dorrie Price’s daughter) later bought the house.
Wayne and Christine had two children who were brought up in the house and attended the Bay school. They renovated and extended in the1990s and sold the house in 2016.