I really love this photo of Half Tree Hollow.
Thank you to Pam Brown for posting this beautiful photo. My beautiful grandmother Dolly grew up in Half Tree Hollow. Grandmother Dolly would take me to visit her lovely family every Sunday when I was a small child. They were indeed a lovely warm kind family. My grandfathers family was the exact opposite.
She would visit every one of them and they would be happy to see her. Grandmother Dolly would visit her Auntie Carry Phillips and her husband Harry. I remember they had a very sick bedridden daughter who died during a visit to their house. They also had a daughter name Jean. Jean married our cousin Carlton Yon.
We would also visit her cousin Ivy Andrews. Ivy had a house at Cow Path. She was so lovely, she would make us a lovely Sunday tea which consisted of boiled pudding, tomato paste sandwiches with lots of chillies and she would have pink and white coconut fingers.
My grandmother and I would visit the ruins of her old school. She would tell that she was sad that they had pulled it down. They did eventually build a new school.
We would also go to the Salvation Army hall in Half Tree Hollow. It was much bigger then the Salvation Army hall in Dead Wood. Most of the Salvation Army band came from Half Tree Hollow.
My grandmother loved Half tree hollow it will always hold a special place in my heart.