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Bushfires. Cricket with neighbours in street Immediate Neighbours: J & G O'Keefe; Adamson; Needham Nearby Neighbours: Curtis, Griffith, Lanigan, Vic & Beryl Wiggins, Galloway

Playing Hide & Seek outside after tea. Pinching plums off people's trees on way to Guides. Laying on little wooden bridges on Herne's Oak track to catch tadpoles. Playing in garages under Fairfield Guest House. Going through the burner. A fantastic childhood and still have many friends from Yallourn Immediate Neighbours: 46 - Jim & Gladys O'Keefe; 42 - Ricky & Kitty Kay Nearby Neighbours: Hold, Curtis, Stevenson, Bennett, Harvey, Guy

Wooden house, creosoted 3 bedrooms with another room added. My grandparents - James & Annie Rimmer - also lived there. My grandfather died when I was 6 yo so my grandmother continued living with us until we moved to Newborough when Yallourn was closing down. We had a copper in the laundry which we used to carry hot water for a bath. Later had a chip heater in bathroom. Our house was very comfortable - open fire in loungeroom and also one in the kitchen. Loved living in Yallourn. Immediate Neighbours: Jack & Myrle Moore; Mr & Mrs Huddy; Paice; Brown

Margaret wrote - Yallourn was a beaut town to grow up in. Nearby neighbours: Mrs Brown & Margaret; Brian Moore, Mr & Mrs Welfare, Mr & Mrs McNair, Mrs Huddy (Dance Teacher)

Glen - getting dragged along on a hessian sack tied to a rope behind his brother's motor bike in the back paddock. Building cubby houses in the bush. Rolling old motor bike wheels down the hill behind our house and watching them run into the back fence, smashing the palings of the fence. Lots of other good memories - the pool, the parks etc. Barbara - 3 bedrooms - shared bedroom with sister (Rhonda) and two brothers shared a room Immediate Neighbours: Ashmore; Cusworth; Jensen (then Vines) Nearby Neighbours: Mussared, Comber, Coburn

Billy cart rides down Coach Road hill, climbing the fire tower at the top of Coach Road, playing on the swings on Coach Road hill and trying to swing over the top. Walks in the bush just up the road. Not many specific memories unfortunately, just very general ones. I remember the Queen coming to town and sitting at the side of the road in the Town Square waving an English flag as she drove by. Immediate Neighbours: 2 - Crooks

Rode bike to school every day. A wonderful carefree lifestyle. Every facility available. Great freedom. Opportunity to participate in sport, singing, drama, excellent library. School dances and church groups were about the only social outlets. We were a fairly unsophisticated innocent lot. Immediate Neighbours: Harry, then Ashmead; McMahon Nearby Neighbours: Jean & Keith Hair; Jackson; Monteath; Wiggins; Barr

Immediate Neighbours: 2 - Mrs Alston; 6 - Burke

Sweeping the leaves into the gutter in Autumn - Liquid Amber - and having bonfires in the streets, climbing the big cherry blossom tree in the front yard. Chatting to Marshie and Unce Dick and Griffy and Uncle Bill next door and riding my tractor up the drive and down the hill from the kinder. Immediate Neighbours: 62 - Griffiths; 66 - Marshall Nearby Neighbours: 68 - Krygsman

23 years of my life! As a spoilt adopted only child, I am so grateful for my time and upbringing at this house (home). Too many memories to list here. In 1967, married Faye Smyth (YHS) raised 3 daughters and lived in 7 Tyres Ave until 1973 - relocated to Morwell, but still worked at Yallourn Post Office till 1976. Immediate Neighbours: 30-Mrs Fowles and long term boarder Joe Davis; 34-Clifton family (Millie & Jack and son Brian) and then James & Anne Watkinson

Living in an upstairs house - outside toilet. Horse drawn bread cart - milk delivery. The swimming hole - the new pool. The soccer club - State School - Tech School. Hot summer days spent at the swimming pool. Good memories of State School years. Playing junior soccer - swimming lessons - growing up in Yallourn will be forever part of me....Geoff Immediate Neighbours: Mr & Mrs Kelly Nearby Neighbours: Mr & Mrs Toughy; Mr & Mrs Garland; Mrs Dyson; Mr & Mrs Gloz

Best memories were of the Yallourn North dances with bands such as Noggins & Bats. Also the picture theatre, midnight mass, swimming pool and tennis. Immediate Neighbours: 25 - Milne; 29 - English Nearby Neighbours: 31 - McMillan, 33 - Sagar; 39 - Wootten; 41 - Kelly

The wonderful berry fruit garden that my mother cultivated - just about every berry fruit you can name and the lovely pies she woulod make (a handful of this and that). A great street to live and grow up in - lots of fun. Also my chooks and ferrets. Immediate Neighbours: Mr & Mrs Boucher & Jack Nearby Neighbours: Opposite - Mr & Mrs Hamilton - Frank, Ian & Valma; Mr & Mrs Bert Mills; Mr & Mrs Crane; Mr & Mrs George Donnett; Mr & Mrs Bosie Marshall

Initially had an outhouse (with night pan); used to love going into the bush over the road; parents would have working bees in our garage building scenery for the local drama group - Yallourn Little Theatre. In 1952 moved to 21 Reservoir Rd and family lived there till 1974. Immediate neighbours: 8 - Lansell; 12 - Ryle Nearby neighbours: Chapman, Elliott, Robertson, Warwillow

Our best family friends were the Austins from the "other hill" - Maureen, Patricia, Helen, Julie & Greg. My friends were Ian Pringle, Mick North, Ewen & Lachlan McPherson, Tim Apps, Ray Curtis, Penny Bowler, Dianne Robertson, Dale Hawken, Heather Grives, Dianne Wolff. Immediate Neighbours - Pringle, Johnson (then Grimes) Nearby Neighbours - Black, Waters, McPherson, Robinson, McDonnell, Rawiller (then Hedt)

Jean Hattam wrote: there was great excitement when the Junior School opened after Easter in 1930. We all marched down to our new school – the headmistress was Miss Carol. From ‘bubs’ grade to 4th grade went to the new school and grades 5 & 6 remained at the Higher Elementary School, which later became High School after I left. Schools were closed twice – once for the Polio epidemic (there was a few lost lives) and teachers went around town, putting our school work in the letter boxes.

Jean Hattam wrote: We had to build air raid shelters in our back yards, put up black-out curtains and an Air-raid Warden patrolled the street and would knock on the door if any lights were showing. Coupons for tea, butter, sugar, meat, petrol, clothes etc – we made out alright. They ceased altogether late 1948. Guides were cancelled during WWII as the Guide hall was taken over for Air-Raid Precautions (ARP) – a few Brownies met in the leader’s garage.

Jean Hattam wrote: Dances were held in the Fire Brigade hall and the Army Drill hall - Scotch nights, debutante balls etc and what a grand night was had by young and old. There were pictures held at St John’s Church run by Mr Parry and at St Therese’s by Mr Philips. Around early 1939, the theatre opened – what excitement…ushers in uniforms and so other picture shows ceased.