This weatherboard and galvanised iron cottage was built between 1908-1915. The Wallarah Coal-mining Company built this cottage to house its mineworkers.
Mr Eddie Mascord and family was the first remembered tenants.
The eldest son Raymond spent his entire life in a mental hospital on an island in the Hawkesbury River. The other sons were Eric(Scotchie), Douglas and Tom and daughter Laura who became a teacher and spent her life in Maclean. Doug served in the Army and Air Force during the war and met a girl Audrey in Canada who became his wife and who is still alive in Wyee.
Tom served with the Air Force and was on Darwin aerodrome when it was first bombed by the Japanese. All the family are now deceased.
The Knowles family moved in.
This house had a beautiful garden, as did many of the houses on this side of Flowers Drive, as there was a watercourse at the rear of the properties. From this watercourse children used to get a bucket of water and tip it over themselves after swimming in the sea.
The Knowles family then moved into this house. Mr Knowles worked on the jetty.
In 1964 the Coal Company ‘Coal & Allied’ subdivided some of its land. It determined that Mr Abe Knowles would purchase the house and land for 400 pounds.
There were three children Wayne, Carol and Trevor. Carol lived in this house from 1947-1958 when she married Mat Diver at the age of 19.
This was a happy family home with lots of fruit trees on the property. A big event for the family was when the electricity was connected.
Abe Knowles died in the house in 1990 and his wife Clarrice died in hospital a month later.
The house was sold in 1990.
This house has been extensively renovated with a new owner. Martin Clayton was responsible for drawing up the plans for this renovation.
The house sold in 2017