General News
20 June, 2023
Letter: Article stirs memories of childhood
Article stirs childhood memories Sir, I read with interest the article on McTaggart’s Garage (Loddon Herald, 1 June). It brought back many memories of my childhood riding past the garage each day on my way to school and having to call in to pick...
Article stirs childhood
memories
Sir, I read with interest the article on McTaggart’s Garage (Loddon Herald, 1 June).
It brought back many memories of my childhood riding past the garage each day on my way to school and having to call in to pick up something for my father or having a puncture repaired.
I remember well Mr McTaggart and Ted working in the garage.
The garage was always very busy providing a service to the local community. They wore big leather aprons whilst working at the forge. They were always cheerful and obliging providing services such as mechanical repairs, tyre repairs and forging.
In the 1940s Korong Vale was a very busy town with a large station, two signal boxes, the coal firing shed, the turntable for steam locomotives, the railway workshops, wheat stacks during harvest and who could forget the large walkway from the station to The Square in the main street.
What a wonderful contribution the railway families and the businesses such as McTaggart’s Garage made to this small community.
Rhonda Heather
Murphys Creek