After he and Eileen married in 1940 he became a full-time professional fisherman. Norm had a boat and would go out on Monday and come home on Friday, sleeping on the boat. Eileen would cook a week’s supply of food on the Saturday and Sunday for him to take in his tucker box on the Monday morning. At the start of each winter Norm would bring the boat ashore, rub the barnacles off, and repaint it; this would give him a break of a couple of weeks. After living initially in Thornells Lane, Eileen and Norm moved into their new house in Tyabb in 1953. A fresh fish shop was set up at the house and Eileen would spend the day filleting and selling fish while Norm was out fishing. At the weekend Norm would sit on the verandah mending his nets. Later he would walk down to the Denham Road beach carrying the nets on his shoulders. After selling fish from the house for a number of years, Eileen and Norm opened a fish shop in Somerville. After three years the business was sold; Norm continued with his fishing and Eileen returned to her filleting. She had two regular outlets: the dining room at Lysaghts and the hospital in Hastings. While Norm worked long hours as a fisherman he also managed to fit in a 52 year involvement with the Hastings Football Club: he played more than 300 games, held the position of President for 14 years in three spells, and, with Richard Everist and Ted Lillywhite, was the driving force which led to the creation of the Hastings Cricket and Football Social Club. Eileen also became involved in community matters and at times filled the role of President of both the Mothers Club and the Tyabb branch of the CWA. Richard, an only child, was born in 1942 when Eileen and Norm were living in Thornells Lane. Although a carpenter by trade, Richard has at times become involved in other ventures: he assisted in the Somerville fish shop and, more recently, started a restaurant (The Pepper Tree) in Tyabb with one of his daughters. (Although well into her 90’s, Eileen would spend her weekends cooking passionfruit sponges for the three years that the family owned the restaurant.) The house that Eileen and Norm built in 1953 was on a double block. Several years ago Richard built two townhouses on the spare block and now lives in one with his wife Maidie. As well as her son and daughterin-law there are also three granddaughters -Libby (and Enzo), Debbie (and Darren), and Morice-as well as seven great grandchildren-Courtney, Taylah, Harrison, Kaitlin,Cassandra, Koby and Tyler-and two step grandchildren-Jess and Kristy-who are left to mourn the passing of Eileen.
Top: Daisy Clarke (nee Denham). Christmas 1907. Above right: Len Clarke when aged 80. Right: Tyabb Railway Station State School. Wes Clarke second from left, front row. Phyllis first on left, third row. Eileen, third from right, third row.
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