Seventy years ago, the tiny town of Tallangatta picked up its homes and moved. The entire north-east Victorian town, or at least its timber buildings, was physically shifted eight kilometres west after an expansion to the Hume Dam made the already high flood risk too great to ignore.Between 1954 and 1956, more than 100 timber houses were loaded onto trucks and hauled to higher ground, away from their previously flood-prone location.Brick houses and civic buildings were rebuilt, and a number of prefabricated homes were brought in, heralding a new chapter for the once-flourishing goldfield town.David Lamond was 14 when he found work moving "Old Tallangatta" buildings to the new site up the road."A couple of us kids would help the removalists We'd get a pound a day — we thought we were rich," Mr Lamond said.He remembers crawling beneath the lifted houses as they sat on trucks, scooping up coins that had shaken loose through the floorboards.Then, he would hitch a ride as the homes rumbled down the road to their new foundations.The town has remained in its new location for seven decades, with no further plans of moving."It's pretty good stuff," Mr Lamond said