30 years of Bailey Homes
The Bailey Homes story starts in 1975, when fifteen-year-old Don dreamed of being an airforce pilot. Still a school boy, Don realised his dream job wasn’t going to work out. ‘The physics was just too hard,’ he says. ‘That really devastated me and I just wanted to leave school.’ The way out, according to dad Stan, was to find a job. Don began an apprenticeship in carpentry. The apprenticeship took him to Adelaide for four years, with Don learning his craft through the turbulent economic conditions of the 1970s, considering himself fortunate to be kept on as an apprentice during the recession.
By 1980, Don had his ticket. He moved back to the family home in Victor Harbor and began working for
