This was a brick house built around 1889 by the Wallarah Coal-mining Company to house its mineworkers.
Mr and Mrs Wheatley and family are the first remembered tenants of this house. They had 3 girls and 2 boys. Daughter Gladys (Mick) Wheatley married Ron Flarty; Pearl married Jack Hancock and another sister Arlie (stepsister) married a Bridge. The boys were Jessie and Bill.
After the Wheatley family Chris and Edna Brace and their family moved in.Edna Lunn married Chris Brace and they lived in Middle camp. Edna as a child spent endless hours with the Robertson family so that she was treated almost as family. When she married Chris Brace they had a daughter every year. Chris was disgusted and said he’d keep going till he had a son. Eventually Edna had son Robert but only after she had 6 daughters, Betty, Josephine, Margaret, Ellen, Janice and Lesley. The front verandah was enclosed presumably as sleeping accommodation.
In1964 the Coal Company ‘Coal & Allied’ subdivided some of its land. This house and land was to be purchased for 350 pounds by Mr C Brace.
The front of the block measured 56 feet 23/4 inches and the rear 45 feet 27/8-inches.the length of the block was 165 feet.
House purchased from Mr Brace and it has remained unoccupied for many years. It has been onsold but remains unrenovated and unoccupied.