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The yard was sticky light brown-orange clay from one end to the other, upon which we applied soil by the horse and dray load to create a garden over a number of years. This home became our castle in a town where employment, education, health, recreational facilities, church, various clubs, cultural pursuits, social stability were the norm. People came for miles around to benefit from these facilities. Few towns through towns in Gippsland could boast having so many facilities. The Yallourn Tech offered 4 tertiary Diploma courses (2 years post-Matric).

It was our first home after we married. It had 2 bedrooms, lounge and a big kitchen. We had a copper in the laundry, but later bought a washing machine. We had a large vegetable garden and a hen house. We enjoyed living here but later moved to 3 Boola Crescent, Yallourn as we had another boy - Neil. Immediate Neighbours: Jack & Fay Vincent Nearby Neighbours: Val & Prue McGoldrick, Dingwall

I was a passsenger in the worst car crash that had ever occurred in Yallourn. The car that I was a passenger in hit a tree at 80 mph when travelling along Strzelecki Rd. We hit a tree at the Heather Grove corner. I was in a coma for six weeks after that debacle. Drove a 1956 FJ Holden.

The removal of 8 wheat bags of coal dust from the ceiling of our house. Trenches through the backyard for sewerage. The bomb shelter in the backyard. the above dates are for the period that this was our family home. My time therre was from 1943-1960. Immediate Neighbours: 8 - Pooley; 12 - McNair

Immediate Neighbours: Welfare, Buckley

Jumping through the attic door and going through the roof and landing on the front verandah at 9 years of age. Close to school, great neighbours, close to old swimming pool. Immediate Neighbours: George Evans, Horsfield Nearby Neighbours: Bob Summerton, Gregory, Lanigan, Morris

A lot of housework as it was a single parent family. Hated "blacking" the wood stove. We had a younger brother, John, who was fostered by Norman & Elsie Byron as our mother, Ruby James, had died in Moe in 1940, shortly after John was born. The Byrons (Broadway West) had 2 other children - Fred & Norma. Alec James later worked in forestry. This was the most settled situation our family had been in as my father had secure work (Fireman with SEC) and we had good accommodation. Immediate Neighbours: Menner on right; Robertson on left

Bush fires in 1939. bomb shelter on the corner of Uplands & Church St. Celebrations in the town square after WWII. Immediate Neighbours: Horrocks; Walters; Cosgriff Nearyby Neighbours: Alice Collins, Drane, Fisher. Ross Whitmore. Davy Hughes. Parry. Bourke. Prestidge

Lived at Church St all my childhood till I got married. Had lots of wonderful memories of the people I knew growing up and the great times we had as children and the things we got up to. My mum shifted to Yallourn in 1923, lived at the Western Camp in tents till houses were built. My dad lived there from 1938 till 1973, when they shifted the house at 69 Church St to Toongabbie. Immediate Neighbours: 67 - George & Nell Huxtable; 71 - Mr & Mrs Latter

As per YOGA newsletter June 2005 Pages 5-8 Immediate Neighbours: Frost, Gleeson Nearby Neighbours: Ashmead, Alston, Murray, Dunstan, Reid

Huge fuschia bushes and Joan loved to pop the flowers. Uncle Tom had a bench behind the shed out back. The bench was covered with hundreds of slaters and I remember playing with them. I played with Dennis Driscoll next door. I remember Auntie Audrey (Audrey Wiggins - later McAuliffe) often played with me in the garden. She was about 17 at the time. One night I woke up crying. Mum & dad were out and Auntie Mona put me in front of the kitchen fire to "watch the fairies". It did the trick. I remember feeling much better and every time I san an open fire with flames, I think of the fairies.

Raising two boys in a great environment. Cubby house and swings etc in back yard. Good neighbours. Mrs Dick's shop across the road. Great sporting opportunities. Immediate Neighbours: Jim & Gwenda Hill; Jack & Edna Magnusson Nearby Neighbours: Keith & Judy Sutherland; Geoff Thomas; Molly & Roy McArthur; Geoff & Margaret Fullard; McConnell

This design of two-storey style had the tree front window frames type. A similar two-storey but smaller had the two front window frames. Immediate Neighbour: Jack Thorpe in Westbrook Rd

Fond memories of the old reed-filled pool with running boards and the diving platform in the middle of the pool. All the ovals where we rode our bikes around. Playing in the air-raid shelters; the magpies swooping on us as we walked across to the 'Haunted Hills'. Immediate Neighbours: 30 - Millane; 32 - Evans; 36 - Grenfell Nearby Neighbours: Opposite - Whitehouse

On 13 January 1939, Black Friday - bushfires raged throughout Victoria causing over 70 deaths. At Yallourn 1,000 people fought desperately and successfully saved the town and the various SEC work facilities. During these fires, the rifle range was damaged and the Department of Interior provided 100 pounds to carry out repairs.

Immediate Neighbours: Mr & Mrs Tom White and Molly, Bill & Penny Bowler (either side) Nearby Neighbours: Evans; Guy; Prestidge; Lansell; Whitehouse; Bottomley; Smith; Wilkinson (cousin); Robertson (behind); James (behind)

Being the second house from the bush, cricket and football in the street. Lots of kids to grow up with. St John's Ambulance Cadets, PFA, Paper round. Immediate neighbours: 75 - Crookes; 79 - Flanigan Nearby neighbours: Back - King (Bruce & Russell Fairfield Ave); Opposite - Ashford, Slater & Norm Smith. 73 - Gapes

My mother and father came from Sweden and lived in Yallourn from 1926 - 1967. It had a small kitchen, lounge & 3 bedrooms - also a wash house as we called it. There was a pedestal bath; copper and two cement troughs. The toilet (dunny) was situated in the back yard. After the war ended in 1945, an inside toilet was built on the verandah. The neighbouring children always played games here. Immediate Neighbours: Doreen & George Roberts; Mr & Mrs Foley, Norm & Dennis Nearby Neighbours: Mr & Mrs Bill Mussared and their 11 children

Only there as a baby - the butcher, baker & milkman came to house. I remember going next door to Mr & Mrs Rose and being shown the bomb shelter that they had in their front yard. It was amazing when I think about it now. We used to visit my grandparents who did not live very far away in Moondarra Place. We moved from here and went to live at 7 West Cross before I started school. Immediate Neighbours: Mr & Mrs Rose Nearby Neighbours: Mrs Huddy (ballet teacher), Mussared, Matthews, Foley