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This shows the plan view of the ‘Ava-Putt’ miniature golf course which architect Alexander Stewart Jolly designed (and most likely built) for A.J.Small. The left… Read More »‘AVA-PUTT’ mini golf links

To promote the screening of ‘Grand Prix’ at the Avalon Cinema’ in 1966, Arnold Spry came up with the innovative idea of displaying an actual… Read More »‘Grand Prix’ at Avalon Cinema

For some years in the 1950s Gwen Searl kept a ‘minute book’ in which she recorded the ‘going-ons’ around Avalon Beach, including the school. She… Read More »Avalon Cinema Opening Night

This photo taken in 1923 shows Alan Hay with his daughter Irene on his lap. Alan had married Clara Dorothy Collier in 1919. His other… Read More »Beginning of “ClareVilla”

This detail from Arthur Rickard’s ‘Pearl of Pittwater Estate’ subdivision plan shows the view in 1920 from Hudson Parade down Delecta Avenue towards the present-day… Read More »Delecta Avenue

This unique photo is one of our favourites and is a one-third part of a panorama shot from the present roundabout at ‘Kamikaze Corner’ in… Read More »The Vale of Avalon

This north-east view along (Old) Barrenjoey Road was taken in 1923. Sanders Lane is yet to be formed as is The Crescent. In the left… Read More »Old Barrenjoey Road

This photo of the golf course appears to have been taken around 1928, the year when the (new) Barrenjoey Road was made around the top… Read More »Early Golf Course

These 2 photos were found in an unwanted folder at Barrenjoey High School. The folder contained documents pertaining to Avalon Beach and it is thought… Read More »Where is this?

These 2 photos were found in an unwanted folder at Barrenjoey High School. The folder contained documents pertaining to Avalon Beach and it is thought… Read More »Where is this?

The first school building of Avalon Public School late in 1950 after 66 pupils from Newport Public School, who had travelled from all points north… Read More »Avalon Public School

The first structure adjacent to the first tee on ‘Avalon Golf links’ was this little ticket office erected around 1932. Water was still some 5… Read More »Golf Course Ticket Office