This is a brick and weatherboard house. It was built around 1889 by the Wallarah Coal-mining Company to house its mine employees.
The Griffiths family lived in this house. As there were a number of boys and two daughters. Betty, one of the daughters, lived with her grandmother in Lindsley St.
‘Bluey’, the father lived there by himself until one of his sons Fred moved in with his wife June. The front verandah has been enclosed to provide more sleeping accommodation.
In 1964 the Coal Company ‘Coal &Allied’ subdivided part of its land and determined that this house and land was to be purchased for 350 pounds by Mr Fred Griffiths.
The block of land measured in width at the front 41 feet and 10 and a half inches and 40 feet across at the rear. The length was 165 and 3/8 of an inch.
Fred Griffiths and his wife June had 3 children Judy, Charlie and Peter. Peter, the youngest, lived in the house with his mother June, she died in 2013.
Peter died in 2015 and the house sold at auction. .