OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Burning cottage, 18/12/1979

DATE1979

MEDIAImage

COLLECTIONHastings-Western Port Historical Society

REG NO.P317

HISTORY

This cottage was originally the Mentiplay home in Skinner Street, Hastings. Jessie Mentiplay and her husband Alf Haddock lived in this cottage after their marriage. Jessie was born in 1882 and was eight years old when the family built this cottage in 1890. After Jessie’s mother died in the front room, Jessie and her husband only lived in the back part of the house. Jessie used to burn large logs in her kitchen fire. Alf carried fish from the Hastings Jetty to the Hastings Railway Station. Jessie had no children. This home was considered at one time by the Hastings-Western Port Historical Society as an Historical Cottage.

DESCRIPTION

This image shows a burning cottage. It is well alight and flames and smoke are coming out of the front windows. Smoke is also pouring out of a back window on the right-hand side of the cottage. Firemen and other people are on the footpath at the front of the cottage. A fire hose can be seen across the tall grass. A fireman is holding the hose in front of the fence. The timber side fence of the cottage is broken and leaning over. Trees can be seen on the left-hand side and a street is in the foreground.

SUBJECTS

Cottages, Fire brigades, Firefighters, Fires, Historic building, Timber houses

KEYWORDS

Haddock, Alf, Haddock, Jessie, Hastings Fire Brigade, Mentiplay, Jessie, Skinner Street, Hastings