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This appears to have been taken on Cordeaux Road in what is now Kembla Heights. The saddle is between Mount Kembla on the left and the rest of the Illawarra escarpment.

This image was taken from a position off the nothern side of Cordeaux road in an area which is on the Wollongong side of the present Mount Kembla Hotel . The Church which was to become the Soldiers and Miners Memorial Church and was to be realigned from the north- south position as shown in image to a east- west alignment where it still stands .The Church and the other houses were mainly on the southern side of Cordeaux road until the paddock area in image on the northern side of Cordeaux Road was subdivided into James Road , Stafford Street and Benjamin Road where it is now part of the Mount Kembla Village . The buildings just below the ridge line on the upper right of the image are part of Kembla Heights along what was Soldiers Road , now Harry Graham Drive , Cordeaux Road had a left turn as it neared Kembla Heights and was built up through the lower part of the "saddle back" which is now Windy Gully and on to the upper Cordeaux River Valley

Wonderful place!

In modern terms, looking north(ish) from the corner of Gibson's Road and Princes Highway, Figtree, Wollongong. The tree, after which the suburb was named, was cut down in the 1980s due to disease.

That marker appears pretty close to the photographer's location given the lowish resolution of the satellite picture. The figtree was on the southern bank of Allan's Creek, on the eastern side of the roadway

Also see www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2376042797/

The rail fences in the foreground were typical of the region. They could be built without nails or other fasteners -- typically of chestnut, a native wood plentiful in the Blue Ridge Mountains until a blight wiped it out in mid-20th century. Haystacks were the common way to harvest hay for animal feed before mechanical balers were invented. I remember my grandfather and older cousins piling hay with pitchforks on a field too marshy to bring machinery into. The two stacks at the left of this field look like they might have been assembled of cornstalks rather than meadow grass.

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