Seventeen years ago this week, Lawrence Hargrave Drive closed for more than two years

Glen Humphries
Updated April 15 2021 - 12:36am, first published June 28 2020 - 10:30am
Point taken: In 2003 residents walked past barriers at Lawrence Hargrave Drive to protest the closure - just minutes before a rockfall that really proved why the road was closed. Picture: Robert Peet
Point taken: In 2003 residents walked past barriers at Lawrence Hargrave Drive to protest the closure - just minutes before a rockfall that really proved why the road was closed. Picture: Robert Peet

It divided schoolfriends, gave the local milkman a very long delivery run, saw businesses close and a pub patron unable to collect his pokie win because there wasn't enough cash in the till to cover it.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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