Prior to reading this I was not aware that part of this house was one of the original telegraph buildings from Green Cape.

Over the last couple of years, as research officer of the Bega Valley Genealogy Society, I have been collecting information on Green Cape and thought your readers might be interested to know that this building is quite a bit older than stated in your article (C1900).

The Green Cape light house was completed in the first half of 1883 and William R. Bragg was the first telegraph and signal master stationed there.

His original quarters were not very comfortable so by September, 1883 an American redwood kit house was being erected for him.

However, as shown in the article found in the Sydney Morning Herald dated 22 September, 1883, many doubted that this building would stand the test of time.

I am sure all those doubters would be more than surprised to learn that it has survived those extreme weather conditions which the Cape experiences and also has been successfully shifted on two occasions.

“Sydney Morning Herald - 22 September, 1883 - excerpt from article headed “Our Lighthouse”

“...........The light is a white revolving dioptric of the first class and is attended to by a principal keeper and two assistants.

“All are married men, and have very snug quarters and already enclosures for gardens have been fenced in for them.

“Green Cape is an important telegraph station and an operator is always on duty here.

“His quarters are not very comfortable and to give him more accommodation one of those American redwood houses which can be fitted together and taken to pieces almost as easily as a child’s puzzle, is being put up behind the telegraph office.

“Such building is totally unsuitable for the purpose it is destined to serve and probably after a very heavy gale both house and occupant will be missing, for the wind sweeps this headland with a force inconceivable by dwellers of Sydney.”