MUDGEE

In the Beginning…

It was shortly after Christmas 1955 when my dad took my brother Bern and me to Glen Davis in my Uncle Jack’s Bedford truck. We parked outside a fibro cottage that Dad had bought and, over the next few weeks, the cottage was dismantled and loaded wall by wall and driven out to Mudgee, where we re-erected it on Lawson Street where it still stands to this day. This was the beginning of my association with Mudgee and its surrounds.

Sometime in the 1970s, I read an article in this magazine where a modeller had removed the stumps from under his house and dug it out to build his own layout room. This article inspired me and I told my friend Eugene”. Over the next few years, with a little bit of help from my son Geoffrey, I dug out around 200 tonnes of dirt and rock and, using a hand mixer, poured the floors, built retaining walls and made my own Man Cave.