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My dog chewing my doll that I got for Xmas and falling off the gate and splitting my eye open. Loved living in this street as I always played with Trevor Westmore and Pat Rickman. Nearby Neighbours: Joey Green & family. At the back of us, Mr & Mrs Smith and Marjorie & Ronald & Frank

Moved to 3 Southway

Good memories of family and childhood. Sense of community respecting neighbours. Special memories of things you never see any more like bread and milk deliveries. Street sweepers with a horse and cart, feeding his horse with a 'nose bag'. Immediate Neighbours: 42 - Peerless Nearby Neighbours: 43 - Green; 39 - Waddington

The SEC coming to paint the inside of the house. Playing under the house so I could see the driveway and who was walking down it. Hitting a ball against the chimney....Lesley

Immediate Neighbours: Scholes; Cullen Nearby Neighbours: Cockburn; Brown

Mum & Dad took pride in the garden, Mum won the “best garden in street” one year. Dad had his vegie patch and chook shed up the back, the little toilet shed was always there, full of intriguing tools and the lawnmower. Dad built the wood shed and later a carport. We had a wonderful black Labrador “Jet” who followed us kids everywhere, even into the pool if Otto was there! We all walked to school and came home each day for lunch.

Made close friends with Holds, met with many high school friends there, Grace Catchpole, Helen Johnson, Anne Knossow. Mary Bert and Joan Herriman (dad's brother) lived with us for some time, until their house was available. They came from Sth Australia. A great 17th birthday party. Mum feeding kookaburras, they would come right into the laundry. Meeting my future husband John at presbyterian church PFA the day after his arrival from England - both aged 16. Immediate Neighbours: Hold (Lil, Jack & Jim)

Hard times financially. Good with children. Married 20.2.1954 in Presbyterian Church in Yallourn. First house after we married - were trying to get a bigger house. Immediate Neighbours: Williams, Rissinich Nearby Neighbours: Thorpe, McKenna, Oliver, Russell

Attending Yallourn State School and Yallourn Technical School, swimming at Old Swimming Pool. Yallourn picture theatre, boy scouts, Yallourn Church Football Club and Yallourn Football Club. Yallourn Golf Club. Immediate Neighbours: Jack & Ellie Young Nearby Neighbours: 3 - Mr & Mrs Hamilton - Winny, Arthur & Gordon; 7 - Mr & Mrs Harold Walker and Mr & Mrs McDonell; Across the road - Trusler family

Carol - wire fences between houses. Knowing everyone in street. No sewerage, gravel roads, footpaths, Saturday matinees at pictures, swimming pool old and new, open fire, wood stove, no hot water service, chooks, ice deliveries, billy put out for milk deliveries, baker horse & cart, mail deliveries twice a day by a real postie. Serials on radio. Postage stamp machine.

Outside guttering tiled, scrubbed till it shone. Outside toilet and shed for briquettes. Very close to the old swimming hole. Wonderful memories of my childhood in Yallourn....Greta A friendly street and people - wonderful childhood...Avril

Immediate Neighbours: 9 - Matheson; 13 - Greer Nearby Neighbours: Graham; Humphries; Meadows; Collins; Mrs Tibballs; 6 - Benson

Immediate Neighbours: Gill; Rear was Sparrow Nearby Neighbours: Scholes; Cleary; Wilson; Godding; Hutchinson

Chris - Whistle blowing for work start & finish. Old black stove in kitchen. Outside toilet a terror until attached to house. Never had a garden. Dog kept for weeks only. YTC kids charging down Maiden St at lunch time en masse. Old copper kettle in laundry eventually replaced by wringer and washer. Briquettes for heating. Power failures. The house was tiny but mum kept everything clean and tidy. Every now and again, she would disappear and we would have to track her down at the Jenner's.

Happy time. Hard for mum to look after Lauris who had lung complaint and not to be expected to live after many operations. Immediate Neighbours: Tom Knight; Annie Boag; Bill Hill; Harold Ennis

Spent most of my childhood in this home, close to swimming pool and ovals where I spent most of my sport and leisure times. Walked to both state and high schools. A great town - unfortunately I had an SECV role...Doug Immediate Neighbours: Mr & Mrs Warren; Mr & Mrs George Gray; Mr & Mrs Blenkiron Nearby Neighbours: Coulthard; Johnston; Pennington; Benson; Hilditch

A wonderful time. Immediate Neighbours: 3 Latrobe Ave - Turner then O'Neill; on Parkway - Sutton, Walker then Stott, Schneider then McGregor Nearby Neighbours: Coutts, maddern; on Latrobe Ave - 5 - Anderson, 7 - Elliot

The great times we had with our neighbours, the Slades, building cubbies, playing cricket, cooking meals in our cubbies for mum & dad's lunch. In general, playing and having great fun. We always had a fun time living at No 8. We had great neighbours on all sides and some interesting ones in the 'Transit House'. Immediate Neighbours: Left Transit House; Right Foley; Opposite Slade & Ostlund Nearby Neighbours: Back neighbours - Kimberley, Seniors & Oliver

The briquette factory "blew up". Immediate Neighbours: Kirkwood Nearby Neighbours: Rainbow, Hill, Chapman

The great bushfire - all the cypress hedges burst into flames. A girl from Moe stayed with us. Very busy life in a country town; sport; church (Methodist) activities, walking in the bush. All the maintenance was provided by SEC. The war brought a new dimension to the town - air raid warnings, air raid shelters, black out rules. Immediate Neighbours: Bill & Rae Hattam (Myrtle, Jean, Teddy); Wiggins (Vern, Audrey, Jeanette) Nearby Neighbours: Dinsdale, Archer, Burmeister, O'Brient, Alexander (rear)

Immediate Neighbours: Wiggins; Hutchinson: Emerson; Scott Nearby Neighbours: Cleary; Lawton; Sloan; Smith