Bond family collection

The Bond family were English immigrants who arrived as a family of eleven in 1910. Bond Cottage was built for the family in the early 1920s at the corner of Curtis and Main Streets in what was then Osborne Park and is now Tuart Hill.  

It was a four-room timber cottage which included a kitchen, sitting/dining room, and two bedrooms. The verandah was enclosed in the early years, and used as a sleep out for the boys in the family. The front door was not used for many years, and everyone had entered through the back door.

One of George and Martha’s daughters, Agnes, lived in the cottage from the time it was built until she died in 2003. She never married, but chose to nurse her parents in their old age.

When Agnes passed away, the house was donated to City of Stirling, along with various items of furniture, personal items, photographs, letters and other ephemera. Some of these objects are on display at Mount Flora Regional Museum and others can be seen in this digital collection.