Mr J.O. Lutted purchased Lot 5 Sec 1 of the Township of Morwell when it was made available by the Government in 1878 and started a wheelwright business. Later he sold to William Murdoch. The lot was then divided into three. There was a major fire in these buildings and others in 1890. In 1891 Murdoch built three solid brick shops on the site.
No. 162 was occupied by a number of people up until 1912 – Hoyle; Rollason; Lamont; Blay – Saddler; Fraatz – Boots & Shoes; Rogers – Saddler.
In 1912 another major fire burned the three shops.
No. 162 was sold to the State Savings Bank and in 1917, they built a new bank. In 1974 the old bank was demolished and a new bank building was built which included No. 164. The bank was integrated with the Commonwealth Bank in 1992 and closed in 1994. Later, Anglicare occupied the building. Later, Braiakaulung Advisory Committee occupied the site.
164 Commercial Road was used by a number of plumbers from 1891 until early 1920s (Hedley; Samuel; Bryden; Ferguson; Smith).
In the early 1920s the Masonic Lodge built a meeting place on the site and used it until they built larger premises in 1927 at 12 Hazelwood Road, now the site of the Morwell Historical Society.
William Davey purchased the building and used it as a hairdresser shop and billiard parlour. Later occupiers were Mitchell; Latrobe Distributers; L.R.Moss; Mannes; Jamehill.
No. 166 This site has been used as a bakery for many years from 1890 until the 1960s – Williams; Rankin; Lamb; More; Guest; Cooper; Francis; Rutherford. The business was purchased by ‘Home Pride Bakery’ in 1963 and used for bread sales until the early 1970s.
It was then used as a Pizza shop and and later ‘Just Jeans’.
In 2009 it was ‘Valley Hobbies’ until it closed in 2016 and is now (2020) ‘Delilah Florist’.
