Mid-century's 'not so humble' housing boom

This newspaper article explores the humble fibro cottage in Camden in the 1950s and 1960s that was integral to the town's 20th-century history. The fibro house represents the baby-boomer era, when drive-ins, Holdens, Chiko rolls, black-and-white TV. Camden's simple fibro cottages provided affordable accommodation for the working man and his family. Local farms had a host of fibro houses, as they were cheap to build and fibro was a practical building material that sometimes replaced iron cladding.