What a small world.

[Len]

A small world.

Hi Aussie Gobbiner.

Just a quick one.
Where abouts in the Illawarra do you live?
Its just that I am familiar with that area myself from back in the 1970's.

 

[Aussie Gobbiner]

Re: Photo Cropshop.

Hi Len, live down at Albion Park Rail near the railway station on the shores of Lake Illawarra. Lived here all my short life ( 40+ a few more! ).... Mum & Dad and siblings all come from ossy.. they immigrated here back in 1956... Didn't stay at the hostels though, stayed in a caravan on some farmers property in Dapto... Though I think my aunty & uncle stayed at the hostel for a time, I shall ask the old man about it.... unreal isn't it! Cheers Dave

 

[Len]

Re: Photo Cropshop.

Hi mate.
Nice to have you here.
We lived on the opposite side of Lake Illawarra to you. Lake Heights, off northcliff dr.
Small world isnt it.unbelievable

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[Aussie Gobbiner]

Re: Photo Cropshop.

Amazingly this isn't the first time this has happenned.... There used to be an ossy website for gobbiners ( not there any more ) the guy who ran it was a roofer and during the summer months he had replaced my aunties roof in ossy! This happened about 8 years ago now I think... Just never know

 

[Aussie Gobbiner]

Re: Photo Cropshop.

Len, you wouldn't recognise the place now! When you were here Wollongong was known as The City of Greater Wollongong.... Now it's a city and the little council of Shellharbour is also now a city....

 

[Len]

Re: Photo Cropshop.

I can't believe Shellharbour is a city it was so small. My mate's father kept a boat there and we used to go fishing. Have they extended out into the ocean?
They must be including Oakflats, Warilla and Albian Park. Into the city of Shellharbour.
Can you tell me are there any local forums in the Illawarra?
I must go to bed it's 1.00am . Up at 6 30.
Have a nice day mate.

ps
If you visit my site again it would be brill if you would sign my guest book .

 

[Aussie Gobbiner]

Re: Photo Cropshop.

Shellharbour as you know it is now Shellharbour Township and the city encompasses all those suburbs you mentioned plus more new ones! I don't know of any forums in the illawarra... only my pigeon forum ....
Cheers mate
Dave

 

[Len]

Aussie Gobbiner

Just a thought, do you have any recent photos of your location you can put on here?. I'm sure that all of us here would be interested to see them. Lake Illawarra (The Illawarra)is a nice place.
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[mez]

i would be interested as im going to sydney ( the sububs winstonhills ) next easter ive done the blue mountains terrific i love auss but too old to move there i would tell anyone in there thirties GO its a great laid back life /// from wot i saw wen i was out there in 96///

 

[Aussie Gobbiner]

Yep... I'll get some together and work out how to put them up here... Len, is there anyone place in particular that you remember vividly that I can go and take a snap of so you can see the changes?

 

[Aussie Gobbiner]

Photos were taken with my Fuji Finepix S602 zoom and resized to 640x480:

Looking north towards Wollongong over part of Lake Illawarra. Taken from top of Stoney Range which is the big hill between Warilla and Oak Flats near the the old water tank. On the other side of the lake is Dapto and Berkeley.

 

[Aussie Gobbiner]

Now that I see that it works!

Here are some more.....

pic_01 is a local bowls club in the middle of winter..
pic_03 is looking north over Warilla towards Port Kembla.. in the distance you can see the ERS chimney stack which when built back in the 1960 something was the tallest in the southern hemisphere.

 

[Aussie Gobbiner]

This is me old dad... 83 years old this year, legally blind and still doing his woodwork. An old gobbin and WWII fighter pilot (Hurricanes) ... Born at 154 New Lane, Ossy, 1921.... Anyone recognise him.... Before immigrating to Australia he lived at Brown Cow Cottage, 21 Grove st, Wham Brook Cottage, Jack House, Hoyle Bottom, 3 Eagle St and finally at 56 Trinity St... he certainly got around!

 

[Aussie Gobbiner]

Using photoshop I joined several photos together to give this panoramic view. Looking north to up the coast from Stoney Range.

 

[Aussie Gobbiner]

Using PSP I joined several photos to give this panoramic view of Kiama headland where the famous Kiama Blow Hole is located.

 

[Len]

Aussie Gobbiner

The photos are good dave. Have you just put them together today?

Len, is there anyone place in particular that you remember vividly that I can go and take a snap of so you can see the changes

Thanks for that offer Dave. The thing is I could come up with a massive list and we don't really want to do that. The only thing I would appreciate would be a photo/photos of the old hostel site, which was on Five Island road between Cringila and Unanderra. So if ever you were passing through that way it would be brill if you could take a photo so I can add it to my web site. I have no doubt that there will be something like industrial units on the old site now.

The photo I have added is of Kiama Blow Hole 1969.
The bloke in the pic is my old man. At that time he was a lot younger than what I am now.

 

[Aussie Gobbiner]

The panoramic of Kiama I did about 3 years ago the other one I did only last week, must of known something was going on! Good photo of your old man and blowhole Len, meaning that any photo taken in 1969 had the mandatory durry between the fingers..
Leave it with me I'll see what I can do... same goes for any other readers that have ties with the Illawarra from years ago, if you have a vivid memory of what a particular place looked like let me know and I'll try me best to get an up to date snap of it..

 

[Aussie Gobbiner]

Went for a Sunday drive around the lake today and took my trusty Fuji Finepix S602Z
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Picture 1 - Is taken at Berkeley Fish Co-Op Northcliff Drive looking out over Lake Illawarra. I have made a minor adjustment to the image using PSP... I added another pelican can you see which is the one that shouldn't be there.
Picture 2 - Is from the same location and looking up to Lake Heights.

 

[Aussie Gobbiner]

Went for a look up around Lake Heights as well...

Picture 1 - Len, this is were the old Hostel "Karingal" used to be, as you can see it is has now been redeveloped and used for soccer. Is 'Karingal" the one you stayed at? The other two hostels were located in Berkeley somewhere around where Sussex St is now and the other in Fairy Meadow which is now also a soccer ground... My Uncle and Aunt stayed at the one in Fairy Meadow back around 1950 or so... I mentioned in a previous post that my family came out in 1956 in fact it was 1954 on the 10th March, 50 years anniversary a couple of days ago.. I wouldn't of known if my sister hadn't of emailed me about it!
I used PSP to join two photos together to give it a wider view...

Picture 2 - Is taken from the top of Lake Heights Road off Flagstaff Road looking down.

 

[Aussie Gobbiner]

This picture is the main Highway through Albion Park Rail, back in 1970 it used to be a two lane road and I used to belt accross it on my push bike without looking...

I cropped the image in PSP and used filters to enhance..