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Hi, I've noticed that although there have been scenes in the caravan park, we haven't seen Summer Bay House exterior a while. Just wondering if it could be to do with the people living there.

This has been put up today. I'm in the UK and it's working at the minute. At the end when her name shows up keep watching there is another final clip of Morag drunk with Roo. Nice touch including Bobby's theme at the end. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gNDd5N0zFbo&t=14s

Came across this clip of Vanessa on The Checkout ABC: Home and away reference at the end ?

I was just wondering, is the Summer Bay Auto garage filmed on the same estate as the the Summer Bay House and Caravan Park?

Yes that what I thought. It looks great. (Shame we can't see the house from the caravan park like the old days because of the different position of it.) If you look on the location page on this site the updated google maps satellite images are there. You can see the difference the landscaping has made. Obviously not thick with bush like it was years ago but not so bare now

Yes I remember that. But as seen in my first post the wedding one was kept the same though. But at least that wasn't a dodgy face editing job though:) Then there was the voice over like Sindi Katas said. When Miles arrived Sally had a dream and we had a flashback to the pilot episode. Vanessa's Pippa was explaining to Sally why Milko couldn't vote over Bobby coming to live with them.

Yes that's what I thought. Debra probably started filming her first scenes whilst Vanessa was filming her last scenes. So I assume they put Debra in a wedding picture (even though she wasn't in the actual wedding episodes) because of the recast. Also recently in TV Week, there was a section on bad boys. In Frank Morgan's snippet they put he was fostered by: Pippa (DEBRA LAWRANCE) and MICHAEL ( DENNIS COARD). They should have put Pippa (VANESSA DOWNING) and TOM ( ROGER OAKLEY)! They missed Vanessa Downing and Roger Oakley out of the shows history. Oh well.

We haven't seen the actual caravan park for a while now. I heard there was some severe flooding there in April. Has anyone heard anything more about that? Maybe if they moved it higher away from the creek, nearer the back of the house where it used to be, then there would be no problems with flooding.

Cornelia Frances was on the Daily Edition on August 10th 2015. She talked about alot of things including Morag. She praised the writing of her character. Here is a link to the video (Any problem with the link obviously delete it. - Easy to find on an internet search anyway): https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=759775150834615&id=204282756383860&_rdr It's such a shame she's not back on the show.

For anyone who's interested here's a picture I found of Vanessa downing with fellow actresses .from August 10th 2015. It's from the Stage Whispers Au website. Ensemble Theatre 2016 Season Launch. Also here's Debra Lawrance and I presume the cast of 'Please Like Me' at the AACTA Awards in January 2015. (Sorry I couldn't find any pictures more recent than that.) Not that much different in hair colour these days - Unlike when the recast happened. - Blonde to dark with no in joke on screen about hair colour changing! They both look glamorous though. On the subject of the recast who remembers the dodgy photoshops of the family photos. Debra Lawrance was morphed in to Vanessa Downings hair and body on Pippa and Tom's wedding photo. Vanessa's face was blurred out on the original Fletcher family photo. However in more recent years we saw Sally taking down a picture of Carly's wedding. Vanessa Downing was in those episodes. But on the picture it was definitely Debra Lawrance because Pippa was wearing a different coloured dress to what Vanessa wore in the episodes. It didn't look too photoshopped. So I wonder as Debra probably started filming around then if they actually had Debra in a photo. Here's what I mean: 1) Pippa in green dress in episode. 2) Pippa in brown dress on photograph. (I'm sure this photo has been seen in the background in early years episodes.) But I think we've also seen Sally hanging pictures of Vanessa's Pippa in later years.

Kate Ritchie posted this a while back. How Summer Bay House was in 1987:) On another subject:

In today's Aus episodes it looks like they've changed the Summer Bay House exterior set again. The lattice is no longer covering the side door they use. It is moved over to where that extra door is and there is foliage around that area. However on the interior set there is still lattice covering the door which is now inaccurate. It seems they are experimenting and can't decide what to do. It's really nice to keep seeing this location though and hopefully we'll see scenes linking the house to the caravan park.

What's her son's Instagram name? Just searched Instagram, her son goes by the user name of NEONLOLLY. I found him by searching hashtags of Cornelia Frances. It would have been nice to see her come back during Alf‘s PTSD storyline. I didn't like it very much when she came back for Roo's wedding to Harvey. I mean Alf told her, Colleen and Celia to go. Celia only ended up staying. - (I didn't enjoy all of her return story either.) It would be great if she could come back as a recurring guest at the very least with some proper storylines

In today's Australian episode did anyone else notice the extra door on SBH when Matt and Maddy were talking outside? I thought they'd covered it with the lattice but obviously not. I wonder if they'll work it so it's a separate door into the laundry.

Now we often see characters walking down a "Beach Path" when they are coming into the caravan park. It looks very similar to the one we see at Palm beach. - Good continuity with the locations there. It still would be nice to see characters walk from the caravan park to the house. Speaking of locations, we have seen the stock shot of the front of Leah's house s couple of times now. It looks very nice but not sure it matches the interior. Also I'm intrigued to know where the exterior scenes of Summer Bay High are filmed these days. It's not the original location is it?

Thanks I'll keep my eyes peeled

Yes I vaguely remember that. Hopefully they'll keep things in the caravan park consistent now. Not sure if this is the right place but I wonder when we'll see the burger phone on screen. It was mentioned ages ago somewhere on the forum that it was back on the diner set.

I am really enjoying seeing different shots of Summer Bay House. In recent Aus episodes it looks like the lattice on the interior set has maybe been altered again so it reflects the fact the outside one no longer comes in front of the door. I could be wrong though. Nice to see a nighttime stock shots of the house. That could have just as easily altered the laundry set so it had the door and made the laundry a bit bigger. I mean several people's washing to do and sheets for the caravan park. - You would expect them to have a bigger utility room and possibly more than one washing machine for this. Also we got to see Roo and co driving up the path. This probably leads to the caravan park. On the subject of the caravan park, I know that people have wondered why they have not located the park round the back of the house where it used to be. I have thoughts as to why this could be. Before the original house burnt down it burnt down it was the Jackeroo Ranch. I believe they used to have accommodation for riders there. It makes me wonder if the original caravan park was the real location off screen for riders. Now it‘s owned by new people it's probably a private residence and they probably don't want a load of vans right near the house. Maybe that was a condition of them filming there again. Or as said by others in the thread it could be due to bush fire safety. These are just my own personal theories. Hopefully soon we'll have updates to the location pages and full details on this Perhaps they might make it more sandy in the future. However, I am just pleased they are back there.

I think it looks great too. I'm glad they are able to film at the original location again. The back door (with the screen door) near the laundry looks as if its had a change. The porch area where the coats hang on looks bigger. I wonder if that's to match the real life house or not. The door is still pink, I wonder if they'll change it to grey to match the exterior doors. I had a look on streetview but its still the same - as in you cant see anything beyond the gates. Looking forward to seeing more

I'm really hoping that they do outside scenes and film caravan park scenes there. Is that the ute Alf drives there? If it is then it looks hopeful but still glad we have new stock shots.

I'm glad of that because when she first left there was some awful photo shop jobs done to make Debra Lawrance appear in these photos. They tried to wipe her out.

Thanks for posting that picture Fyn 3. It looks really good. Hopefully they'll make the Angelo's set look the same balcony wise as it looks like they have several small balconies on the Angelo's set. So it'll make it more realistic if they make it match the new extension.

Yes the surf club is the same building on the outside we've always seen. They have just changed the inside set a few times. I've read somewhere in this forum in real life they are building an upstairs to the surf club. That's why we haven't had any shots of the outside recently. In home and away they jumped the gun and did a storyline where Angelo's was built upstairs. But the real life surf club hadn't got planning permission then. So the real life surf club has apparently got scaffolding up. If home and away hadn't had already built Angelo's then this could have been part of a storyline. It would be nice if anyone had any pics of how the north palm beach surf club looks now as its being extended. From the early years episodes I think the caravan park and SBH should be not far from the beach. In the original caravan park I remember seeing a wooden sign pointing to the beach. I agree now a days you can't always tell where things are meant to be. The beach house was always along the beach. You used to see people walking to and from the beach to th house. The hospital was always based in Yabbie Creek. I think it still is but not mentioned as much now. Characters pop to the city but we don't here much of them going into Yabbie Creek so much now. On the plus side it's nice that the original location for St James church is being used again. They used it for Roo and Harvey's wedding and used it on another wedding recently. (Won't say who because it's a spoiler for us UK viewers and can't use the spoiler setting as I'm on mobile version of forum). So hopefully we'll get some good locations in the future.

Further to what I said about British soap Coronation Street rebuilding the whole street; it's been reported on British news that they spent 10 million pounds on the project. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't cost channel 7 that much for just building summer bay house. I've noticed on an Aussie property site that the rebuilt house at pinyaro valley has been up for rent in the past. It's not now but they could have snapped that opportunity up.