This weatherboard and galvanised iron house was built between 1908-1915. The Wallarah Coal-mining Company built this cottage to house its mineworkers.
Mr Walker was the first remembered tenant. After this the Hopwood family lived in the house. Then the Peacock family moved in. The children were Billy, Les, Donald, Jessie, Violet and Lily. William (Pasha) Peacock did not live in this house. He died in 1943 while living in No. 43 Flowers Drive.
Grandson William (Bill), who lived in No.9 built a boxing ring in the backyard and before he caught the bus to high school would spend 15 mins on the punch ball (effort to deter bullies). Tom Fuller’s daughter Vera married Australian Bantamweight Champion, Ken Stanford around 1947.
Coleen and Bill Peacock spent their wedding night at no.19 on 7/9/1951. His grandmother Emma Peacock let them use her bed “bless her’ although it was very lumpy as it was made of kapok.
In 1964 the Coal Company ‘Coal & Allied’ subdivided some of its land. The Company determined that Mrs Peacock should purchase the house and land for 400 pounds as ‘Mr Les Peacock son works at Colly & lives with her’
‘Tata’ Peacock (Les) lived in the house for many years after his mother died. When he died, the house was sold.
Bill Peacock put in a bathroom for his uncle however “he went into a retirement home before he got to use it”.
The house was sold.
