Barzelatto Menindee home
Accommodation
How different housing seemed in Broken Hill. We did not leave mansions behind, but most of our homes were made of stone or brick. The 'tinny' was quite a contrast: so too the boarding houses in which our single men were accommodated.
We lived in a shed that Ivan had built at the back of his
father's house at 329 Piper
Street. It was very nice — lovely
bedroom. I had never had vinyl on the floor before
and that
was a lovely floral one. It was luxury. We had a lovely bed
and furniture;
everything was new. Ivan had it all organised for me. Ivan's step-mother and I used
to cook together in
the old house.
Jagoda Vlatko
We had a room in a big boarding house — single men's
accommodation which was owned
by Mr Puccini. We had
our meals in another place.
Jack De Franceschi
I stayed in two places when I first came back to Broken Hill
from Wilcannia. I
stayed at 9 Argent Street with Emilio
Giobbi and then moved to 53 Argent Street.
Luigi Zanette
We lived at Millie and Rudi Alagich's place for about six
months. Millie is Nick's sister.
Nick's parents came back to
Broken Hill and we moved in with them for about a year.
I had
a child in that time and then we bought a house in
Patton Street and have been here ever
since.
Joyce Ravlich
I did the cementing for the
foundations and I was always
helping. The house was ready
in
1954 and we have lived here ever
since.
Dagmar Kanck
There was no bathroom; the shower was only a hose
outside. The toilet was outside in
those days and we went
to the toilet before the cart men came to change the pan
because
afterwards the smell of phenol would cling to you!
Silvana Michl
I made about forty-six thousand cement bricks. I couldn't
afford to put the roof
on for about three or four years.
Eventually I saved the money, bought the material
and
finished the roof and the inside of the house.
Con Frangonasopoulos
Mum and Dad came back to Broken Hill and lived at 341
Piper Street until she
died in 1991. I can remember the house
having wall-papered hessian backed rooms,
and dirt floors
in the kitchen and verandah.
Millie Alagich
Dad had a house ready for us in Crystal Street. There were
two or three houses
with one big yard. No fences between
us and we were all Maltese.
Emily Tonna
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Barzelatto Menindee home
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Old tinny — many migrants settled in "tinnies"
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Red-roofed house — formerly Puccini's boarding house
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Norwegian embroidery
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