This weatherboard and galvanised iron cottage was built between 1908-1915 by the Wallarah Coal-mining Company. It was to house its mineworkers.
The Boyd family lived in number one. Teddy Boyd, the father, was a loco driver taking the coal from the mine to the jetty. There were ten children. The boys were Albert, Alec, Alfred, Jim and Jack, nicknamed ‘cheesy’ was the youngest in the family. The girls were Elsie, Min, Janet, Mabel and Nellie.
Elsie married Bert Shaw and they were Dorrie Price’s parents. Min married Alf Faraway.
There were lovely social evenings at the house as one of the boys played the piano and Jim (who was crippled) had a beautiful singing voice.
In 1964 the Coal Company ‘Coal & Allied’ subdivided some of its land. The Company determined that this house and land be sold to Mr Ernest Mascord for 400 pounds.
The next family to move into number one was also called Boyd. However, this family was from Swansea. They started the improvements on the house. Mrs Boyd sold the house to Dennis Boyd who added an extra room onto the side of the house around 1996.
Dennis Boyd is the son of Betty and Curly (Ted) Boyd of no. 15 Flowers Drive he owned the house in 1994 and lived there for a number of years with his wife Sue and their daughters Tracey and Anne-Marie. He then sold and moved to Swansea.
House sold, renovated in 2016 with new hardie planking and windows. A large shed has been added at the rear of the property.