The pathway eventually leads us some distance from the highway. Lest the journey to be walked get
too long, we start to head back via suburban streets. I do shoot a good many examples of the local
housing but given the need to restrict the number of pictures for each leg to no more than 30 or
thereabouts I include just this one because it says so much about Sydney suburban architecture.
During the 1960s and early seventies, when much of this area was first developed and expanded,
suburban bungalow design was dominated by the hugely popular three bedroom "triple-fronted" red
texture brick design. They appeared literally everywhere, along with their red clay Marseilles
pattern tile roofs. People flying in to Sydney would marvel (or poke fun at) the sea of "suburban
red" that lay beneath them.

Anyway this dwelling seems to have followed exactly the trends which followed. First of all a timber
framed and flat asbestos fibre sheet garage was added. Then came a back "sunroom" which today
we might call a "family" or "rumpus" room, at the rear of the house. By the late seventies and early
eighties a lot of the then older families had expanded to four children each of whom needed bedrooms
of their own. So then two bedrooms (and an additional bathroom) were often added via a cheap and not
especially stylish upstairs extension. Come the late 1990s and 2000s, fashion ran to cement rendering
and the consequent covering of the now horrendously unfashionable red texture brick cladding.

This house seems to embody ALL of those responses to Sydney surburban fashion. And you know what?
I built my OWN triple fronted red texture brick house in 1970. I drove past it last year. It looks
very much like THIS one.