Victoria

Title: Development and Construction

This memoir is made from information I asked my Mum {Jill Lee} about. She was born in 1953 and is 54 years old. I chose the topic “Development and Construction.

When I was a girl, all rooms were separate and a bit smaller, and there was usually a separate dining room. There were much bigger gardens compared to the house, so the house didn’t go right up to the fence. Now, there are often joined rooms, and we usually eat in the living room. There are much smaller gardens, and houses often go right up to the fence. We have central heating, air conditioning, and we don’t use vents. When I was 11, none of those existed, and we needed to use vents. We used fires, and sometimes little electric or kerosene heaters {those only heated one room}. In summer, we just used fans. Another difference is that houses always had timber frames. The house was made from bricks, timber or thin, small sheets of concrete. Nowadays, people, can make huge sheets of concrete, and use a crane to lower them into place. The buildings can be made from almost anything, and the frame can be made from wood or metal. We also have more options for rooves. There are a variety of materials including coluorbond, tiles and corrigated iron. Back then, people only had things like tin, corrigated iron or tiles. The tallest building in Melbourne was around 20 storeys high. En suites didn’t exist, neither did hand driers, blow driers and computers took up whole rooms! Television was black and white, now we have colour almost all the time! The tallest building in Melbourne is the Eureka Tower which is 92 storeys high, that’s the tallest residential building in the world! Countless things have changed, and those were just a few of them.