14 Alfred Street, Mornington built by Thomas Green
14 Alfred Street, Mornington built by Thomas Green
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COLLECTIONMornington and District Historical Society
REG NO.1408
HISTORYThis photograph was taken in 1960. Thomas Green was born in Mornington in 1878, son of Daniel and Eleanor Green and grandson of Benjamin Constable. He gained his Merit Certificate at Mornington Primary School, and at the age of 14 he left school and joined his father as a builder, painter and glazier in Mornington.
Thomas married Miss Susan Trudgen in 1908, they lived on in the house in Alfred Street, built by Thomas’s father Daniel. This home stayed in the family until 1962.
Thomas was a member of the Mornington Football Club, and a member of the Mornington Rifle Club, and in 1917 won a medal awarded by the Affiliated Rifle Clubs of Victoria for the highest score at the Williamstown Rifle Range.
An item in the local paper shows that Thomas Green was contracted to paint the Dromana Mechanic’s Institute in 1905 for the sum of £11-5-0 ($22.50).
This photograph shows a white weather board house. It is single storey with a pitched corrugated iron roof. There is a verandah across the front of the property, with a ornamental trim. There is a central door with a sash window either side. the door and window frames are a timber colour. There is a picket fence to the front of the property.
SUBJECTSFootball clubs, Historic buildings
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