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Bushwalkers can now explore a new track at Mount Kembla, with sweeping views of Cordeaux Heights and beyond at its peak. Stage three of the Memorial Pathway, a collaborative project between South32’s Dendrobium Community Enhancement Program and local residents, was officially opened to the public on Tuesday. The new section begins from the corner of Benjamin Road and Kirkwood Place and is a comfortable 23 minute walk up to the lookout which is at the site of the former Nebo Colliery’s Bradford Breaker Building. The Breaker building used to break coal from the Nebo mine into smaller pieces for transport by rail to the Port Kembla Steelworks. At the top walkers can look over the area of the coal transport route of last century to the start of the Pathway at the foot of Cordeaux Road. The path then connects with the newly completed roadside pathway to Cordeaux Heights and Unanderra.
BACKCOUNTRY: Mt Kembla residents Jenna Bottele and her sons Flynn, 4, and Ethan, 2, testing out the new section of the Mount Kembla Memorial Pathway. Picture: Adam McLean
Bushwalkers can now explore a new track at Mount Kembla, with sweeping views of Cordeaux Heights and beyond at its peak.
Stage three of the Memorial Pathway, a collaborative project between South32’s Dendrobium Community Enhancement Program and local residents, was officially opened to the public on Tuesday.
Members of the Memorial Pathway Group and the official plaque at the completed Mount Kembla Memorial Pathway. Picture: Adam McLean
The new section begins from the corner of Benjamin Road and Kirkwood Place and is a comfortable 23 minute walk up to the lookout which is at the site of the former Nebo Colliery’s Bradford Breaker Building.
The Breaker building used to break coal from the Nebo mine into smaller pieces for transport by rail to the Port Kembla Steelworks.
At the top walkers can look over the area of the coal transport route of last century to the start of the Pathway at the foot of Cordeaux Road.
The path then connects with the newly completed roadside pathway to Cordeaux Heights and Unanderra.
![AUSTINMER: "I love what it's become, with its top tier for kids to play their ball games and the lower tier for picnics and weddings," resident Robert Woodhill said in 2012 of Glastonbury Gardens. "It's not so well known to people from outside Austi because it's a little hidden from the main road [Lawrence Hargrave Drive]." Mr Woodhill says the terraced stone walls on the lower tier are a focal point, built by a Wollongong City Council gardener who was employed full-time to look after the park up to the 1980s.](https://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/rdPnbxNSt95RbDXSGgzrdz/9e879862-1e24-49ae-94bd-e220e87ab707.jpg/r0_0_1151_678_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg "AUSTINMER: \"I love what it's become, with its top tier for kids to play their ball games and the lower tier for picnics and weddings,\" resident Robert Woodhill said in 2012 of Glastonbury Gardens. \"It's not so well known to people from outside Austi because it's a little hidden from the main road [Lawrence Hargrave Drive].\" Mr Woodhill says the terraced stone walls on the lower tier are a focal point, built by a Wollongong City Council gardener who was employed full-time to look after the park up to the 1980s.")
