Post Office as identified on hand drawn map 1904
Mr and Mrs Allen lived in the original Post Office however at the time of their residence the Post Office had been moved over the road into Lindsley Street. Mrs Allen was pregnant with her first child when the maternity nurse Grace Slapp came to inquire about renting a room. Alice Allen (nee Boekenstein) gladly rented her a room and she later delivered Alice’s first child Pat. Nurse Slapp left the town to get married but returned to deliver Mrs Allen’s next child, a son. There is a photo showing that there were a couple of steps up to the front of the house at this time.
Perc Allen worked as the jetty foreman.
The Allens left this house in 1933 and bought the Gillons house in Fraser Street. This house was one of the few private dwellings in the Bay.
The next occupants of the house were Nanna Freer (Hancock) with H and J Hancock. Afterwards Victor Freer and family moved in.
The house was then bought by the Coal Company and was vacant for some time until rented by Baigents from Coal and Allied. The Baigent family had moved from Montifiore Street when the Coal Company wanted to demolish the house.
Bought by Bart and Kim Vanden Hengel with Kim’s sister, Connie Levitt. In 2013 Bart & Kim bought out Connie with plans to retire. However plans changed and the house was sold.
(Mr Olsen, a Sweed, lived in a shed at the back)