This weatherboard and galvanised iron cottage was built between 1908-1915. The Wallarah Coal-mining Company built this cottage to house its mineworkers.
This house was a boarding house first run by the Bardons and then by the Martins.
When Kate (nee Henderson) and Fred Northwood first married they moved into the big room at the back and their son Gordon slept in the washing basket which appears in Mel Gibson’s first movie ‘Summer City’.
Mrs Connar then took over the boarding house and ran it as a house and shop.
Mr and Mrs Smith took over the shop and made and sold pies in the town. The Smiths had previously lived in a tent at Moonee and their daughter Nancy later married Bob Rutherford and later lived at number 35 Flowers Drive.
Eunice and ‘Barney’ Owen Bridge took over the shop. Mrs Bridge had three children from a previous marriage to Mr Plumeridge. Albert, Jimmy and Louie.
The business was then sold to Louie and Reg Pearman who ran the shop for years.
Col Russell and Val D’Arcy (Henderson)who were sisters bought the shop in 1960 and had it for 4 years. Col stayed in the residence.
In 1964 the Coal Company ‘Coal & Allied’ subdivided some of its land. The Company sold the house and land to Mrs O C Russell.
Mr and Mrs Bevan bought the shop. The Bevans moved the shop across the road and Col Russel turned the whole building into a private residence where with her husband Owen they raised four children. Colin, Pam, Shaun and Glenn. Glenn later married a local girl Cathy Ham whose family lived near the cemetery.
House resold.