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Services
in Orford were mainly oriented towards tourists and their needs.
By the end of the 1960s there were several blocks of flats. The roadhouse
was the main eating place for visitors. There was a service station on
the corner of Charles St where it is now. |
Atkins'
shop was in Charles St opposite the service station. It burnt down
in 1964. It was replaced by the shop currently known as Orford Riteway,
built about eighteen months later by Rex Kube.
There was
no police station at Orford in the 1960s. Law enforcement came
from Triabunna. There was also no fire station. The Triabunna
doctor would hold clinics at Orford in the building that is now used by
the vet. It was shared with the State Library. Local school
children were vaccinated at the clinic and given a “sugar cube” with the
medicine in it. Most local babies were delivered in the hospital
at Triabunna.
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The
post office and manual telephone exchange was located in Charles Street.
There
was a small shop and milk bar in the building that is now owned by Dr Roger
Cox. The butcher’s shop was built in 1964. |
The following
table shows an overview of the way businesses and services have changed
over the past thirty years.
|
1960’s
|
1990s
|
| Post
Office |
Post
Office and Supermarket |
| Atkin’s
shop |
|
| Kube's
Shop |
Orford
Riteway |
| Butcher |
Butcher |
| Service
Station |
Service
Station |
| Milk
Bar |
|
| Roadhouse |
Roadhouse |
| Blue
Waters Motel |
Blue
Waters Motel |
| Fish
Processing Plant |
East
Coast Seafoods |
| Walkers
Transport |
Walkers
Transport |
|
Island
View Motel |
| Sea
Breeze Holiday Units |
Sea
Breeze Holiday Units |
|
Newhaven
Nursery |
|
Hair
Dressing Salon |
|
Riverside
Villas |
|
Central
Coast Courier Newspaper |
| State
Library |
State
Library |
| Both
Anglicans and Catholics used St Michael’s Church of England.
Entertainment
was very limited. Blue Waters Motel held the occasional cabaret and
there were one or two dances in the hall. Once a week they would
show reel to reel films in the hall at Triabunna. |
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The big
paddock behind Orford Riteway, where the new holiday units are was a swamp
area where the local children used to make billycart tracks. A proposal
was put forward to turn it into a caravan park in Orford but this was rejected.
The Orford Cricket Ground was there in the 1960s but it was not fenced
and it looked like a big paddock.
In 1965
there was a big storm that flooded the area and washed fences away.
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It also washed the bridge away at Nelsons Creek. Mrs Marge Higgs
just got off the bridge in time before it was washed away. It took
a month before they were able to replace the bridge with a bailey bridge
and residents wanting to go to Hobart had to drive though via Levendale. |
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