This is one of those ‘the more you look the more you’ll see’ photos. An aerial view taken in 1941 provides a good overview of the developing central area. The roofless dressing sheds were a[…]

The ‘Bathing Pool’ was as close to a natural rock pool as geologically possible. In 1917 A.J.Small lodged a cheque with Warringah Shire Council to allow workmen to formalise the shape and level the bottom[…]

Upon his discharge from war service in New Guinea, Bert Cowell headed straight back to Avalon Beach. At his wife’s suggestion he thought he would ‘have a go’ at green-grocering. The truck he bought had[…]

This classic photo shows the commercial area of Avalon Beach in the late 1930s. ‘Avalon Beach Store’ was built by Stan Wickham in 1934 and in the same year, the ‘Avalon Service Station’ and the[…]

This postcard from the 1920s shows the site in the immediate foreground where the surf club was built in 1934. Car parking in those days was really a ‘free-for-all’ and when necessary spilled up the[…]

This great photo was one of a short series taken by professional photographer, Rex Hazlewood in the early 1920’s and may have been commissioned by AJSmall. It has been used by the Society as their[…]