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Very happy childhood. Dad did the garden, grew all our vegetables. There were great grounds to play in, trees to climb! Walls to hit a ball against and room to hit a tennis ball in the drive; also one could play in the street as there were very few cars. Yallourn was a great place. Great home to be a child - corner block so garden front and sides - no back garden, trees to climb, drive to play ball. Air-raid shelter inside so blocked back hall during the war.

Immediate Neighbours: Mr & Mrs Laurie Walker, Mr & Mrs E Callaway

Great neighbours with great kids, great times in the bush playing hide & seek. We had great climbing trees and town was covered in fruit trees. No matter where you were, you were never hungry. We were the 5th last family to vacate Yallourn. Immediate Neighbours: 9 - Noel & Jim Deer, then Laurie & Denise Henrikson; 13 - Ralph & Pauline Leditshke, then Les & Faye Tulau

The block was very steep. The garage was at road level but the house was set down from the road in the middle of the block. Because of where the house was, I walked to school every day along a rocky dirt path which came out at the Heather Grove little shop. Immediate Neighbours: 9 - Lawry, then Dear; 13 - Johnson Nearby Neighbours: 1 - Foster; 2 - Lofts; 4 - Fankhauser; 5 - Roberts; 6 - Austin; 7 - Williams; 8 - Sutton; 10 - Fitzgerald; 12 - Jollef; 13 - Johnson.

When we first moved in there was nothing but bush behind so we had plenty to do up in the bush, much to the worry of our parents. Immediate Neighbours: Fletcher family (son Keith); Mr & Mrs O'Brien (daughter Pat - son John) Nearby Neighbours: Across the road - Ely & Heade. 2 doors away Janice & David Brown

David - Bike rides down Coach Rd; Billy carts down the back lane; TV at Mrs Dick's shop (Erica Street) - previously Snapes. Mud sleds down the Driffield Rd embankment. Every fruit tree known to man in the yard. Dad repairing / working on guns in his workshop (Bill Brown Gunsmith).

Janice - riding a homemade billy cart down the lane; making bush huts in nearby bush and summer swims in old and new pool. Our family has fond memories of Yallourn as we all worked in this area after marriage.

Immediate Neighbours: 5 - John, Jean, John Jr & Pat O'Brien; 9 - Don, Betty, Bev & Gayle Malpass

Nice house and neighbourhoold. Great memories of school and apprenticeship. Good times in the bush near Rifle Range and Coach Rd Lookout. Immediate Neighbours: Thornton (left); Renwick (right - facing house). Sagar (back); Dingwall/Murphy; Redmond (back); Vincent; Dunstan; Opposite Boola Cres - O'Brien; Esler; Lacey (hairdresser); Wally Loft; Webster (Strzelecki Rd)

Had an absolutely wonderful childhood in Tanjil Place. Lots of time spent playing in the bush, riding bikes, walking to tower at Coach Rd, building billy carts, great bonfires, playing cricket with nearly all the kids in the street on our back lawn. Chasing behind the baker's cart. Immediate Neighbours: Tozer; Patterson Nearby Neighbours: Laurie, Hoffman, Johnson, Fitzgerald, Sutton, Driver, Fankhauser, Tulloch, Hebb, Hall

We had moved from 66 Eastern Ave, East Newborough. Happy to live in a beautiful town, which had a cinema, shops, swimming pool and sports ovals. I was a member of GFS - Anglican Church and a "Keen Teen" marching girl - coached by Mr Webster. Very happy time - after living in a "migrant town" with no facilities. My mother was finally happy living here. Immediate Neighbours: 10 - McIntosh; 6 - Burgoyne Nearby Neighbours: Sambell; Norden; Goss; Horscroft; Field; Lakeman

Very happy. It was above street level and overlooked the town below and right across to the Srzelecki Ranges where there were fern gullies and then led down to the sea. I liked the fact that staff members and even lowly paid employees could live next to each other. This didn't always appeal to some wives (staff)! We were fortunate to be able to go to the snow in winter and the sea - but there was petrol rationing and friends shared the joy. Mr Servellie, Manager of the Briquette Works, whose wife and family were evacuated, took us for drives in the hills etc.

Great plum trees - apricots were only good for the first couple of years. After we'd lived there for about 2 years, we had the phone put on - that was very exciting. We had a very good view of Hazelwood Power Station - when we arrived there were one and a half chimneys. It took about a year for each subsequent chimney to 'grow'. It was very exciting watching the fire that burnt out one of the conveyor systems, can't remember the year. The TV antenna was very tall - I was ony ever game enough to climb about half way up it.

My dad had a large vegie patch. He built a solid concrete walled garage with a large service pit. He also constructed a hydraulic (water) clothes line that went up and down by turning tap off/on. Our briquette heater had a water coil through it to produce hot water. I had a good time playing footy and cricket in Tanjil Place with all the kids. We had our own bush to play in and construct tree houses in. Immediate Neighbours: Mr & Mrs Joe Gordon; Mr & Mrs P Phillips Nearby Neighbours: Hebb; Tulloch; Fankhauser; Roberts; Lynch; LeLievre; Fitzgerald; Hoffman; Ellis

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.