Sid Sidebottom (Braddon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

They are getting a very good rollout, by the sound of it. Anyway, on to happy times. I live in a very old home, built in 1875, in a historic village between Ulverstone and Devonport on the north-west coast. The village is called Forth, its original name was actually Hamilton-on-Forth, and it is on the Forth River. In 1879 a town hall foundation stone was laid at Forth by Edward Braddon, who happened to be a resident of Forth, and in 1880 the town hall itself had been completed and was opened by Edward Braddon. I think it is a nice coincidence in history that I have the house next door to the town hall at Forth, my electorate is the beneficiary of the name Braddon and he would have ridden past my house. He was a very active character and the town hall at Forth had a very active life.

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