The Stewart House.
The Stewart House was seen frequently between 1988 and 2000. When Home and Away began in 1988, Alf Stewart was living there with his daughter Roo. They had previously lived in Summer Bay House but moved out after Martha Stewart's death. Ailsa Stewart moved in after she married Alf and they went on to have a son - Duncan - in 1989.
Bobby Simpson stayed briefly in the house in 1988 before moving on to the Fletchers. In 1989 Ailsa's niece Emma Jackson came to live with her and Alf. She left in the following year. In 1990 siblings Blake and Karen Dean moved in. Their late mother Margot had shared a prison cell with Ailsa and they had nowhere else to go. Others who lived in the house were Simon Fitzgerald, Blake's half-sister Roxanne Miller, Sarah Thompson, Curtis Reed and Aaron Welles. Alf's sister Morag stayed in the house for a while in 1993 but left under a cloud when her conniving scheme to adopt Sam Marshall came to light.
The bar in the living room
The living room of the house had a bar in the corner, from which Alf sometimes served drinks. The kitchen/dining area was in a long, narrow room. Things could get a bit cramped around the kitchen sink when there were a few people in the room. Infamously, the ghost of Bobby Simpson emerged from the fridge door in 1995 when Ailsa was hallucinating.
The kitchen, just before Bobby's "visit"
The house was destroyed in a mudslide in 2000. A power pylon fell through the roof and set the house ablaze.
Residents over the years[]
- 1985-2000 Alf Stewart
- 1985-1989 Roo Stewart
- 1988-2000 Ailsa Stewart
- 1988 Bobby Simpson
- 1989-2000 Duncan Stewart
- 1989-1990 Emma Jackson
- 1990-1993 Blake Dean
- 1990-1991, 1993 Karen Dean
- 1991-1992 Simon Fitzgerald
- 1993-1995 Roxanne Miller
- 1993-1994 Sarah Thompson
- 1993 Morag Bellingham
- 1994-1997 Curtis Reed
- 1997-1998 Aaron Welles
- 1999-2000 Mitch McColl
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