Original owner returns to the first house build in Tuggeranong
Kevin and Eileen Delmenico and their sons Paul and Mark lived in the first house built in Tuggeranong - at 4 Attiwell Circuit, Kambah. Mr Delmenico returned to the home as celebrations for Kambah's 50th birthday start to kick into gear
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00:00Hi guys, welcome to our new home.
00:0750 years ago we owned it.
00:10Yeah.
00:11See, it's got sound filters.
00:20The views of the mountains around here.
00:23There's nothing else here.
00:25There's nothing.
00:27I just drive, you know, I haven't been down here for a while.
00:32The first shop was down there.
00:36You know, there's a couple of little shops down there now.
00:39That was the first one to open up.
00:44The original store.
00:45Yeah, where you could get some groceries there and they had a grocery shop as well.
00:52Yeah, that was the first one.
00:57First of all, you know, it's a bigger deal now for us.
01:18It's good to think now that we were the first that lived in Tugnerong.
01:23It's something special.
01:25But when we first came out here, we didn't care less about it.
01:29We just went with the flow and it was pretty lonely for Eileen, my wife,
01:36because she was out here on her own and there wasn't much.
01:39And we only had one car while I had to go to work.
01:43And one of the kids had to go to preschool.
01:47He was going to preschool.
01:48There was no preschool.
01:51So Eileen had to wheel the pram up to Namatjira Drive, catch a bus,
01:57go into Fisher and walk up the big hill at Fisher and pick him up
02:02and drop him off and then pick him up at night time.
02:05That was pretty hard on Eileen more than me.
02:09You know, I had my lifestyle.
02:10I was going to work.
02:12I was involved with football clubs.
02:14I coached them a couple of times a week.
02:18It was good though.
02:20It didn't take long and people were moving in all the time.
02:28Is that the barbie?
02:29Yeah, I built that barbecue there.
02:33You'd never move it.
02:35You'd have to get a bulldozer in order to move it.
02:38How many bags of concrete did you see?
02:40Sorry?
02:41How many bags of concrete did you see?
02:42Oh, I reckon there was four or maybe more.
02:45It's a real solid one.
02:47It hasn't moved.
02:50It was different.
02:51Yeah.
02:52We had a sort of a porch out here.
02:57You'd walk up and there was steps down.
02:59Yeah.
03:00We'd get his head there.
03:01Yeah.
03:02It is lovely.
03:03I love it.
03:04We've got a big alley cat here.
03:06It was a big wild cat that used to roam around.
03:10In the wild west.
03:11Yeah.
03:12It had a head like a panther.
03:14Yeah.
03:15I came home from football one day and all the kids were panicking.
03:19The cat's gone in here.
03:21And it was up along the curtains.
03:23Oh, no.
03:24It's in the house.
03:25It had got in the house.
03:27Oh, my gosh.
03:28That's nice.
03:29How in the hell am I going to get this thing out?
03:30We've just got to let you know.
03:32We've been here for just over two years.
03:34But we've been in Canberra, back in Canberra for the past three almost.
03:38Yeah.
03:40And my family is on the street, which is a big plus.
03:45And this house is just perfect to grow a family in.