This weatherboard and galvanised iron cottage was built between 1908-1915. It was constructed by the Wallarah Coal-mining Company to house its mineworkers.
The Drummond family was the first remembered family to occupy this house. The Hughes family came in next. The father could have been in the mine office. Nell, Gwen and Owen were the names of the children but there could have been other children.
During the years of the Second World War, Peacocks lived there until 1949
In the early sixties Morrie Alexander lived here, he was an engineer at the mine and is famed for his band, he later married Beth Taffe.
Then Nola, who was the step daughter of Morrie, and Billy Smythe came into the house. They had previously lived in Swansea and had two boys Alan and John who grew up in the Bay and went to the Bay School.
In 1964 the Coal Company ‘Coal & Allied’ subdivided some of its land. The Company determined that Mr W Smyth should purchase this house and land for 400 pounds.
When Mr Smyth died his wife, Nola sold the house in 1997 to Anne Dupre whose son and daughter in law owned the old school buildings across the road.
The house sold and currently rented on a permanent basis.