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The building was built about 1922 as a store and residence for Evelyn (Charlie) Thorpe.  Over time it was used as a tea rooms, sweets shop (some locals may recall it being referred to as Bertha Shea’s lolly shop), fruiterer, dressmakers, residence, art gallery and AMP Agency.   The building was vacant for a time until it was re-opened as Craig’s Cottage in late 2010 selling homewares, giftware and fashion items, only to be inundated by flood waters a few weeks later on 11 January 2011.  After some weeks Carol and Michelle got the business up and running again only to suffer the devastating fire a couple of months later.
BAKERY BUSINESSES:
Our Society is endeavouring to prepare a history of the buildings and businesses in the main streets of Dayboro not just those that were included in the Historical Town Walk brochure.  It will take a very long time.  The bakery businesses are very complex.  Edward Redman conducted a bakery on an acre of land between the cemetery and Laceys Creek turn off until his death in 1915.  It is possible that the Francis (aka Franca) brothers, John George and Robert James, may then have conducted this business for a time.  The Kelly family had a bakery in McKenzie Street from around 1910.  A Page family appear to have conducted a bakery in part of the Excelsior Hall, which was destroyed by fire in 1936.  A bakery was built next to the butcher shop in Williams Street in the mid 1930s.  The land was acquired by Frederick Thomas Collins, baker, in January 1934.  It was sold to William Francis Hunt, baker of Landsborough in January 1937, and to Harold Robert Carter in August 1941.  Harold Carter had moved to Dayboro from Mundubbera in September 1937 with his parents, Frederick Carl Carter, also a baker, and Margaret Carter.  Harold married Bessie Kelly, daughter of Joe Kelly (of Kelly’s Bakery) in the early 1940s.  Carters sold the bakery to the Tebby family in 1970 and moved to Aspley.  The bakery continued in this building, being conducted by the McCullough and Nutley families and possibly some others, until the Nutleys built the present Dayboro Bakery building in the mid 1990s.  That business is now owned by Scott and Virginia Wiggins.  There are quite probably a number of other bakers who have not been identified yet.
DAYBORO CALENDAR:
Congratulations to the Dayboro District Progress Association Inc. and North Pine Printing on the great calendar they have produced this year.  With the 21st Dayboro Day Festival taking place on 27th May this year, it is a very fitting tribute.
DAYBORO HOSPITAL:
Following publication of the December Grapevine, I have been advised that at least 2 more babies were born in the Dayboro Hospital after Kevin Sellin (27/8/1939).  They were Colin George French (10/9/1939) and his cousin Denise Dorothy Wood (13/11/1939).  As it is 80 years this year since the Dayboro Hospital opened, our Society is interested in compiling a list of babies born there and also other who were treated there.  My husband Bob was born there, as were his sister Eileen and his brother Reggie – 3 members of one family.  Can any other family beat that?
Carmel Bond, President – Ph: 3425 1717 (h)
or 3425 2032 (Dayboro Cottage)
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