1940s: Growing up as a girl in Corio

Elizabeth Brown (nee Minns) wrote of her childhood during the war years around this area: During the war air raid shelters were built on the corner of North Shore Road & Melbourne Road opposite what was then the Corio Shire Hotel, which was later demolished when the road became a four lane highway. The Norlane Hotel is now situated where the air raid shelters once were. For the older residents the Corio Shire Hotel was a good meeting place after work & Saturdays. Hotels were closed on Sundays. Often the men having had a few too many drinks, & riding their bikes home across the paddock near Hamiltons, would fall off. After they had had a rest & continued their ride home we would go across to see if they had left anything behind & often found some threepences which had fallen out of their pockets. We thought we were millionaires!! (http://northshoreandnorlanestories.com/5ed84ac0-f100-4423-82bc-ddda9467a936.html)