The Location Thread

[emzynr]

Didnt Rachel and Kim have a night away in the city?? they were in a room overlooking sydney harbour

[Dan F]

Ah yup, that too

[Mistified]

...and I remember Brad went to see Naomi "in the city", I think to try to get her to withdraw her remarks about his drug past or something, and they were sitting on a bench across the harbour from the Opera House.

[Ryan]

Using my main script document, the earliest use of Sydney is 1991, spoken by Cynthia Ross.

[ter06]

Very strange location for Stewart's Point (where we saw Martha on Friday) - it's just the other end of the beach where the Diner is.

[pluto]

Very strange location for Stewart's Point (where we saw Martha on Friday) - it's just the other end of the beach where the Diner is.

wow was that meant to be Stewarts Point? I didn't realise, it looked nothing like it normally does lol I do wish theyd be a bit more consistent, i.e use the locations best known for certain things as the places theyre meant to be, if that makes sense lol

[Dan F]

I'd forgotten about that, meant to mention it when it aired. Was quite silly of them to try and pass it off as Stewarts Point when its just the far end of the car park. As far as I can remember there is a sign there for Barrenjoey Headland, but why they replaced it with 'Stewarts Point' when they could have just covered it or left it out of shot, who knows! Martha could have just stated she's already been up there.

But then Stewarts Point has always been a strange one anyway, and quite inconsistent.

[pluto]

I'd forgotten about that, meant to mention it when it aired. Was quite silly of them to try and pass it off as Stewarts Point when its just the far end of the car park. As far as I can remember there is a sign there for Barrenjoey Headland, but why they replaced it with 'Stewarts Point' when they could have just covered it or left it out of shot, who knows! Martha could have just stated she's already been up there.

But then Stewarts Point has always been a strange one anyway, and quite inconsistent.

True lol they shouldve just indicated that martha had been up there as you say, it wouldn't have detracted from the story.

On an unrelated location topic, where was the Ailsa's original cafe/diner/store located and whats there now? I mean the really early one that was firebombed by Dodge when they thought Frank was asleep upstairs and had died in the fire after they found a body in there. (and whose body was it btw?) I wondered as the store never seemed to get mentioned in later years, except as alfs later one lol

[Dan F]

Ailsa'a original store was just across the road from the 'Pier Diner' but was demolished many years ago - there's absolutely no trace of it now with the whole area just being grass and picnic benches.

This is the only pic I have showing the exact spot nowadays, you can just see the road heading up to the left:

You can see the area on Google Maps here, but the Streetview doesn't really cover it.

ETA: The body they found was Philip Matheson, Steven's uncle

[ter06]

I'd forgotten about that, meant to mention it when it aired. Was quite silly of them to try and pass it off as Stewarts Point when its just the far end of the car park. As far as I can remember there is a sign there for Barrenjoey Headland, but why they replaced it with 'Stewarts Point' when they could have just covered it or left it out of shot, who knows! Martha could have just stated she's already been up there.

But then Stewarts Point has always been a strange one anyway, and quite inconsistent.

I always imagined Stewart's Point to be a remote headland, not Station Beach! It really was silly of them to do that. Then again, I doubt they expect that people like us would analyse every single detail but it makes for bad continuity.