This house is behind the butcher’s shop and situated on the original Calvert block. It was built in the late 1920s as the home for the Calvert family. Read more...
John Beecher Guy built this shop in 1926 for his sister Charlotte (Lottie). It was called ‘Wendy’s Tea and Candy Kitchen’ and sold Peters ice-cream, soft drinks, aerated waters and tobacco and home-made confectionary (Lottie had taken a course in sweetmaking). Without refrigeration the ice-cream was chilled in a mixture of bought ice and salt. Lottie provided morning and afternoon Read more...
This unusual dwelling is a flat roof timber house, clad in weatherboard. It has a covered veranda, and is detailed with fancy fretwork and timber casement windows with lead-lights. Mrs. O’Meara is remembered as living here but we are not sure if she was the first owner of the house. John and Elizabeth O’Meara arrived in the mid-1890s and the Read more...
Bill Calvert’s first butcher’s shop was originally on this site (part of the Calvert block). After the current butchery was built in 1935 his old shop was leased for Mrs Hintz’s Home Cookery and Cyril Morris’ Boot Shop until the building burned down in 1945. Many remembered Mrs Hintz’s hot mince pies for 6d. In 1962 Bill Calvert built the Read more...
In 1924 a butchery was established in Swanson by William (Bill) Calvert, who ran a farm on No 1 Road (now Coulter Road). A small shop was built where The Trusts retail shop, Swanson Village Wine and Spirits, is today. In 1935 the Calverts built a new shop on the site where it still is today. The Calverts initially had Read more...
