How Cringila, once known as Steeltown, was first marketed as the 'New Birmingham of Port Kembla'

How Cringila, once known as Steeltown, was first marketed as the 'New Birmingham of Port Kembla'

Steeltown by Illawarra artist Riste Andrievski, who grew up in Cringila. Photo: Riste Andrievski. It’s fitting that three of the streets today running east of Lake Avenue, Cringila, are called Bethlehem, Birmingham and Steel. For it was a trip to America and Europe by the NSW real estate agent Lance Giddings that made him realise that wherever big steelworks were being established, a dormitory suburb quickly sprung up. Just a quick glimpse of th…