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Now submerged under Warragamba Dam. I stayed at a guest house in the valley late 40s/early 50s. I remember on a "100 degree" day sitting in the bed - a shallow rocky section - of the adjoining Coxs River near where it joined the Wollondilly.

Thanks for sharing your story with us, mdlewisben!

They would need SCUBA gear now - it is under Warragamba Dam. 1937 interactive map showing extensive settlements swamped by the lake - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-vn4180400-sd&rg...

beachcomber australia Thanks for the info; we've changed the date above to pre-1937.

Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection It is only the map which is dated 1937; I don't know when the area was flooded; probably about 1960. But late 1930s seems about right for many of these photos for railway carriage decoration.

Great photo and love the map. I own a more recent version of the map. Also, I've uploaded a couple of my father's photos of Burragorang Valley in the 1950s to Flickr.

Janette Asche Thanks for letting us know!