Mr Hansen who lived in this house was killed by a rolling jetty pole. Family moved to Swansea.
Tom and Annie Price. came next to live in this house. There were a number of children. Two of the boys became crippled in their late teens. The townspeople helped care for these boys taking them to football games etc and Ronnie Flarty regularly took one of the boys on her delivery runs.
Gladys Bush (nee Price) came to live with her brother, James Richard Bush (Ray) in 1936 with her four children. Ray, William, Elaine and Keith and stayed until 1943. The childrens’ grandmother lived opposite the Post Office and their aunts and uncles lived in the second houses going up the hill, opposite each other, in Clarke Street. This was a very supportive environment for the Bush children.
Lil and Roy McKenzie lived in this house and ‘Monty’ was a miner. Lil was a Darcy before her marriage there were two children. A son, Franklin who now lives in New Zealand and a daughter Susan who married Dennis Boyd and moved to No 1 Flowers Drive Middle Camp. Dennis was a truck driver in the mine.
House was rented for a number of years. Sold in 1993 and was demolished and rebuilt in 2004.
House on other side of the river occupied by a single man
House half way up the hill near the old school lived in by McRitchie