Leatherwood recently went to Lyell wing and interviewed the residents about their history. Here are some of their responses. 

• In the kitchen, there were no fridges. Cold things were stored in ice boxes. The

  nuns at St Josephs stored their vegetables and cold things in the side of the

  bank (hill).

• They used a wood heated stove. It had an oven and top to put pots on.

• Food was always fresh. Vegetables were grown in the gardens, and they got

  eggs from their own chickens. They grew fruit like raspberries, apples and

  strawberries. Beans, pumpkins, peas, potatoes and carrots grown in home

  gardens.

• Food did not come in packets. There was no fast food, mainly only flour, sugar

  and tea were bought at the shops.

• Some of the people had cars, but they were very old.

• Most of the people did not have phones or TV. There were no computers.

• The phones were wind up ones and a person put the cord in a telephone

  exchange to connect you to who you wanted to talk to.

• People used to get their toilet waste collected at night by a man in a horse and

  cart.