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Very happy, left from here to get married to Tom McAllister on 8/1/1949. Immediate Neighbours: Neil & June Harwood Nearby Neighbours: Alan & Elsie Walton

It was a great town to grow up in. Great fun playing opposite in the bush, building huts and underground houses. Riding our bikes, loved the old swimming hole then the new pool. Swam in simming club races there. Marching girls when I was older...Donna Immediate Neighbours: Frank Potter, Ellis (Colin & Howard) Nearby Neighbours: Walton (Beverley & Douglas), Mounter, Joyce Wilson (John & Margot), Taig, Ferguson

Playing after school on the road where we had a cricket pitch, hopscotch, tennis court and other games painted on the road. As it was a dead end, the children of the street all played together - it was a great neighbourhood. Growing up in Yallourn helped to form some great friendships, some still to this day over 60 years from when we started school at the Yallourn State School. Immediate Neighbours: Hebb; Roberts Nearby Neighbours: Tulloch; Fankhauser; Austin

Brilliant and beautiful layout of Yallourn. Jobs plentiful - you named it, you got it. All the facilities at your finger tips - hospital, health centre, theatre, pool, Kernot Hall for balls and dances etc. Earthquake; Greg Dunn's christening at the Catholic Church - St Therese's. Olga worked in Slades Bakery after SEC Workshops. I worked at all the Yallourn Power Stations - 1st boilermaker foreman at age of 26..Barry Immediate Neighbours: 76 - Solly; 80 - Davies Nearby Neighbours: Opposite - Wicks

My father started a business at home repairing shoes. He then opened a shop near the picture theatre next to Brian Langdon's radio shop. Then there were new shops built in Garden St when the library was relocated. I spent a lot of time helping my father in the shop repairing shoes after I broke my leg going to school in 1954.

Building air raid shelter; dunny man coming to collect brimmers; sewerage being installed; father building nice garden; coming of TV; purchasing 2nd fridge in the street; milk delivered by horse & cart; bread too; plane trees in street dropping leaves. Immediate Neighbours: Myers, Burgess, Walker, Ferew Nearby Neighbours: Lazarus, Hewitt, Abery, Comber, Fitzgerald, Burrows

Mother donated J J Marr Shield for inter-house competition 1946. Brother Alan was head prefect in 1949, also held record for 50 yard sprint for decades. Father built all houses west of Westbrook Road. Alan, Irving Stephens and I represented Victoria at school boy soccer in 1948. Immediate Neighbours: Barrett Nearby Neighbours: Esler, Col & Ralph Harvey; Irving Stephens

Ron & I worked at the SEC. We were told that on occasions, a car coming down Coach Rd failed to take the bend and ended up in our garden (before our time). We loved living in Yallourn. It was so beautiful. The parks and gardens were so lovely. Immediate Neighbours: 42 - Lorna Padfield; 38 - Mrs Fletcher Nearby Neighbours: Doug Courtney & family across the road. The playground was opposite us.

Immediate Neighbours: 52 - Art & Eileen Cooper; 56 - grumpy old man who would not give balls back.

We were lucky to have a bigger house than many but it was cold in winter and the dust always a problem - but our mother coped well with the dust and the very basic facilities - but it didn't worry us children much. We loved the bush nearby to explore - great sports grounds, especially loved that old swimming pool (in the swamp) with its diving tower in the middle. The dirty water never worried us. Also swam in the river, rode bikes everywhere. I always thought the theatre design was rather special but didn't realise how special till I studied Architecture later.

Wonderful memories. Central location. Opposite Yallourn High School, close to shops, churches, schools, sport facilities. Very happy community in 1940s and 1950s.

Immediate Neighbours: No 8 - Pitt, Angus, Gregson, Lavery, Esler; No 12 - Roberts, Price, Cass, Coulson, Blampied Nearby Neighbours: Behind back fence (Church St) - White; No 6 - Shepherd, James; No 4 - Buller; No 2 - Rev Brown; No 12 - Slade

Don McCredden, nephew of Vic & Floris lived with the Gusts from 1944 - 1946. Wonderful years! He remembers the neighbours being then:

Easy walk to school, swimming pool,, shops etc. My grandmother Chance came to live with us there. The block of four toilets at the bottom of the yard. A huge plum tree which was the cause of many stomach aches. My first tooth was extracted by Mr Rosenberg. Sister was born here. Immediate Neighbours: Bowler, Gust Nearby Neighbours: Ostlund, Kennedy, White, Hines, Walton, Cox

This house was the last house on that side right next to the bush. Use to go with father to collect wood in wheel barrow. We sometimes had owls that came to sit on the clothes line and other animals - kangaroos, lizards, wombats etc. Nearby Neighbours: Leiper, Rainbow

Kindergarten - Church St 1953-54; YPS 1955-60; YFC - mascot/selling newspapers at hotel; Salvation Army - Church/swimming pool/Sat arvo matinee at picture theatre/going to the old tip looking for junk! Left High School mid-1964 to join Australian Army as an apprentice. Always have returned to Yallourn area on holidays etc. Have a bit of memorabilia of Yallourn and many fond memories. Immediate Neighbours: 29 - Dick Sullivan (son Richard) Nearby Neighbours: 27 - Courtney; 37 - Dinsdale; rear on Coach Rd - Harvey

Lots of coal dust from briquette factory. Large back yard with fruit trees, passionfruit on side fence. Played junior football, cricket & tennis, was in Scouts and Senior Scouts. My father (Alan) was a teacher at Yallourn Technical School. Immediate Neighbours: Mr & Mrs Beulke Nearby Neighbours: Bradbury; Sagar

Great neighbours and community close to everywhere - good sporting facilities. Dad had a super vege garden out the back. Mum and I gardened the front - lovely Golden Ash street trees. We 3 girls slept in big bedroom at first. Mum and Dad in other front bedroom. Brother John in small room at the back. Yallourn was a lovely safe community to grow up in. Great amenities, clubs & sports facilities. Great high school under Mr Ellis - good teachers. Immediate Neighbours: 10 - George Gray; 6 - Kruchneiders (before them were Kromoloffs)

Catholic school opposite - sports facilities - ovals, pool, theatre, library, café, school, paper round, TV was a novelty. Neighbours: 2 - A&L Robertson (teachers), then B R Harrison; 4 - Allen (Bill, Marie, Janet).

Dad and Father Walsh having a beer or two on Sunday arvos. Immediate Neighbours: Scott; Wilson Nearby Neighbours: Only Wilsons between us and shops. Catholic Church across road

Many happy times especially at night with a sing-song round the piano when all our friends would drop in and our special friend, Sinon Hannon, would play his saxophone and violin. Our other special friend, Claude Peck, played piano at Yallourn. We always felt safe and well cared for - a very good place to grow up in. Immediate Neighbours: McCulloch; Ramage; Thorpe Nearby Neighbours: Maxfield; Whitehouse; Crow; Spittle; Gregory Spencer; Reid