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First house in that area to have a lounge chimney built middle 1930s - digging air-raid shelter. Moved to 1 Hillside. Immediate Neighbours: 3 - Newton

Playing up the nearby bush a reservoir hill. We always had a dog with us. Riding bikes up and down the ant hills. Delivering the daily papers both morning and afternoon. Playing football and cricket on No 1 Oval. Watching Yallourn Footbal Club every Saturday arvo. The Briquette Factory Explosion (approx 1951). A great place to grow up in everybody knew everybody, house doors were never locked. Kids played in the streets until mothers called them for tea. We had a great neighbourhood...John

Great place to grow up. Remember flood over football ground. English cricketers playing on No 1 Oval. Opening of Swimming Pool. Childhood at St Terese's school. Painters in the house for weeks. Sewerage coming through. Immediate Neighbours: 74 - Andy & Connie Smith + 4 children; 78 - Jim & Carol Scholes & Charles Nearby Neighbours: 80 - Bill King, Bruce & Russell; 72 - Ralph & Barbara Harvey & Tim; 70 - Don White & Ian

Most of my memories were here. Lots of time in the bush, walking to school, great autumn colours, claret ashes, school drinks, sport. Basically it's the house I grew up in and I have many wonderful memories of Yallourn while living there. What a town! How lucky we were!...Ian

Large parkland at the rear of the Firestation where we spent most of our time as children. Tree climbing was high on agenda, many huge pine trees. Backyard was small which is why the park was a big attraction. I attended YPS but left in Grade 6. Family moved to Geelong. I was the U11 & U12 'Potato Race' champ and record holder (quite an athlete!!). Unfortunately, Ive never seen the event anywhere else - so no professional career! Immediate Neighbours: Harvey & ? Brimacombe, Gillian & Ashley

Nan & Grandpa lived here until 1961 or 1962 when they moved to Valley Rd (No 13 I think) Immediate Neighbours: Kirby, Abery Nearby Neighbours: Parsons, Vickery, Boden, Nellie Hewitt, Campbell, Beale

Moved to Newborough in 1964 Immediate Neighbours: Bennett, Johnson Nearby Neighbours: Gallaway; Thompson; Steffen; Robertson; Shaw; Douglas; Smith; Castmellies?; King; Flanigan; Catchpole; Harkin; Price; Guest; Richards; Cox; across the road - Davey; Mooney; Dermott

My father was the butcher and knew everyone! Very comfortable and warm home. Lots of cooking, music & visitors. Always busy. Meals and Meal times important. Much involvement in community. Mum won the Royal Agricultural Society Medal for the best home garden in Victoria in 1957 (John Pascoe Fawkner medal). Everything in Yallourn was of the best standard. Every person in the town had every opportunity to do well. Immediate Neighbours: Mr & Mrs Peter Smith & family; Mr & Mrs Tate; Jack & Beryl Jones Nearby Neighborus: Mr & Mrs Davies; Mr & Mrs Galloway, Mr & Mrs Thompson

Dunny down the back. Cutting big lawns and hedges. Big vegie garden. Apple and plum trees laden in season. Bagging the briquettes and stacking mill ends for briquette fire and open fire. Listening to the radio around the fire and knitting at night time. Mum baking a feast every Sunday with cakes to last a week. Enjoyed riding bikes with girlfriends to Hernes Oak and Morwell Bridge. Loved the old mud hole and swam there every day. Dad teaching me to dive. Tennis at St John's and Yallourn Tennis Club. Immediate Neighbours: Mooney; Guy

Immediate Neighbours: Davey, Francis Nearby Neighbours: King, Scholes, Drane, McDonald, Vogel

Wonderful childhood over the bush opposite until houses were builit. About 20 kids in street to play with. Dad rabbiting about 10 pair. We kids would pedal around town delivering orders. Dad sold skins in city. Mum never remarried after Snowy died (66yo from coal dust in lungs). Immediate Neighbours: Robinson, Thompson

Having our family, our first house, cheap rent, on call 24/7 electrical for Yallourn showrooms, breeding/showing Scotch Collies Immediate Neighbours: 58 - Steffen; 62 - Bennett

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