Early Yallourn - 1 Westbrook Rd 1959 Anker Lerche

Anker Lerche worked as a boiler house engineer, first at the old Yallourn Power station (from 1959) and then later at Morwell power station until he retired (1977, I think). This was how the house looked when we first arrived from Melbourne. It was a bit of a shock for mum and dad, so we stayed with friends (Stella and Aage Nielsen, and their daughter Maureen, who had arrived in Yallourn some years earlier) until the house was fixed up a bit. The floorboards were bare, so carpet and lino had to be laid down.