17 Beach Street

Built around 1912, number 17 was first the home of A & M Brocket.

Mr and Mrs Nind with daughter Elizabeth at the back of the house with the vegetable garden on their right. The Hill’s Hoist clothesline was a new invention in the early 1950’s.

Graeme and Pat Nind owned it from 1954 til 1965. One of two daughters, Barbara Nind remembers it as a happy home with lots of fruit trees and an extensive back yard vegetable garden. Even today the large ornamental trees at the front are a reminder of early days when the gardens ran alongside the cement path up to the front door. The original water tank at the back door remains, albeit covered in ivy. A well once stood behind the house near the tank stand. In 1965 the Nind’s sold the house to Mr Gough who only lived there a year, when it was purchased by Mr. McManus, a nurse at Cherry Farm. He lived there several years during which the sewerage was connected after a long period with no sump or efficient septic tank. Mr McManus sold on to J & S Spruyt who moved there with their young daughter Lynda (a teenager then). They lived there three years or so, before selling to R & E Grubb. Bessy Grubb, a well-known identity, lived in the house for over 40 years before her death in May 2012, just shy of her 100th birthday.

The property today.