Saturday 10 July 2021

F is for FAMILY. 14 William Street, Port Fairy (Belfast), Victoria. Historical Fiction based on fact.

 


My photo of the Wells family cottage in Port Fairy,
 taken 2014



The little wooden sign painted with a shaky hand (using the

olive paint left from the outside loo) advertised the goods and prices to the passers-by.


He'd always gardened, as had his father before him. The 'green thumb' had been handed on, and he was the lucky one of the five children. Was it a help? Definitely, it meant he'd been able to start work quickly once they found a cottage in their new hometown, named after Belfast in Ireland.