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Margaret Mary Marshall:
I can see the 4 shops are now 2 shops..next door, next to the shops was Mr Guyatt house with a huge green hedges and high fence with beautiful steel gates..two Dogs called Mac and Chip.. The gardens were magnificent...the home was Stately...Mr Gyatt was the original owner of Guyat's Holden Dealership on the Corner of Wyndham Street and Welsford Street...as I look at this photo what is that blue building next door? Guyatts home was on a double block... The Adviser many years ago created a four page spread all about Marshall's Corner for History ....my Mum spent many days with the reporter outlining all history of that landmark... Folks...friends...kids of the North end... I have approached the Adviser several times to see if this history was stored .... I really have not received any answer.... To rewrite that history would be beyond any person... There was a wooden road out the front and the original shop was posted on We grew up in Shepparton...I did look recently on that site but as usual it is gone...I did write stories about this corner called as seen through the eyes of a child....they're not there either.. The home behind the shop where we grew up was shifted from where the Ford Dealership was built in the late 1947...that house is still behind Marshall's corner...I see the old lead painted roof still the same..but in bad repair.. The top Facade remains somewhat unchanged...Kids in Shepparton lived behind that facade on the roof...inside the roof there is large areas all the kids played in..things were stored up there..... I can see Rex Piastri still sitting across the road looking at Marshall's Corner...bet he is still there...so much history under that ground too.. The old Marshall Corner had a dirt floor and the door into the shop was right in the corner with 6 steps leading up to the shop..us kids would always perch on these old wooden steps waiting for Angy Laws to come early in the mornings to pick up bread.....Angy came in his horse and cart and if he was happy he would take all us kids down the road around the corner to Lightfoot street...it was magic...we would all race back to the corner waiting for another horse and cart ride...memories. |