May 1 - 31, 2026: Issue 654

 

The Palladium Palm Beach (1930 to 1974) + Palm Beach Studio (1976 to 2026)

Palladium, the corner of Ocean Road and Palm Beach Road - FX Holden (1948-50 Series) out front
At the first Meeting for the Avalon Beach Historical Society for 2024, held on Tuesday March 12, Members and Guests were treated to a great insight on the iconic Palladium building at Palm Beach, now a private home.

As the Palladium has now been placed on the market, and David Elfick's Profile, held over since then, now runs this Issue, a few insights into what is known about this iconic old beachfront building may be of interest. 

The owner for the past 50+ years, David Elfick, gave a Talk on his time in the Palladium at the 2024 ABHS meeting. This was preceded by a slide show from Geoff Searl OAM, supplemented by research undertaken by William (Bill) Goddard, all of which allows for a more definitive record than that first page on Art Deco influences in Palm Beach buildings.

Geoff explained a little about the first and sales, the building just north of the Palladium, which was one of the earliest ones built on the oceanfront, and the building of Ocean Road in the mid 1920's, which provided easier access to those beachfront Lots. 

Geoff Searl OAM, President of ABHS, explained some of the early context for land sales at Palm Beach by the then aptly named  'Barrenjoey Land Company', the name most people knew the location by due to the headland's function as a Lightstation from 1868, a Lighthouse from 1880, and the Broken Bay Customs Station from 1862.

Past the initial 1900 land sales for this 400 acres, with only Pittwater side lots, the equivalent of 31 acres, being bought by a Mr. Charles Forssberg. Some time between then and 1911 a James Channon, Manufacturer, bought the parcel of Lots 1 to 18 from Barrenjoey to Whale Beach and Careel Bay. 

THE PROPERTY MARKET.
As a rule in commercial circles a public holiday tends to make a broken week and restrict the usual volume of business. Last week's transactions in the estate market were no exception, few sales being noted either by auction or private contract. During the next few weeks several important sales of city properties and well-known suburban estates (in subdivision) will come under the hammer.

Messrs. Batt, Rodd, and Purves, Limited, at their rooms on Tuesday, offered, under instructions from the surviving trustee of the Bassett-Darley Estate and the administratrix of the late Benjamin Wentworth Darley, a marine site, comprising 400 acres of land at Pittwater, on the main road and close to the lighthouse at Barranjoey. This estate embraces on the ocean side the well-known Cabbage Tree Boat Harbor, and in Pittwater the much valued camping ground in Careel Bay. The property was offered, in subdivisions, the lots ranging from one acre to 74 acres, the first buyer having the option of picking his lots. Bidding was started by Mr. C. Forssberg at £5 per acre. Then bids, after considerable animation, rose quickly to £12 per acre, at which figure Mr. Forsberg took 13 lots, altogether about 30 acres. This land was described as having a sandy frontage to Pittwater and Careel Bay. The first lot on entering the estate from Manly, 4 acres 3 roods 16 perches through from the ocean side to Careel Bay, went to Mr. Trevor Jones at £10 per acre, and the end lot on the beach, a block of a little over 4 acres, at £9 10s per acre. On the Pittwater Estate a block of land, 21 ¼  acres, near the Hole in the Wall and Bilgola Head, with large frontage- to the main road, was passed in at £1 17s 6d per. acre.  
THE PROPERTY MARKET. (1900, January 31). Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), p. 2. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117039706 

The lots were re-advertised in June 1900 with mention of the tram towards Pittwater being used as a selling point and 18 lots up for sale at 'upset prices'!:

Messrs. Batt, Rodd, and Purves will sell by auction next Tuesday at their rooms 88 Pitt-street, 18 allotments at Pittwater, belonging to the Bassett-Darley estate. The lots vary in size from 74 acres down to 4 acres, and the upset prices at which bidding may start are quoted in the firm's announcement in our business columns. The sale is to be without reserve. No title (1900, June 3). Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), p. 4. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126286201

The land was part of 400 acres (Portion 18 of Parish) initially granted by the Crown to James Napper on the 16th of March 1816. 


The remainder was then offered for sale by the Barrenjoey Land company, who acquired the same from James Channon in July 1911. 

In June 1911 the Barrenjoey Company was registered:

NOTES AND COMMENTS. 

Barrenjoey Company, Ltd, has been registered with a capital of £6000, In 120 shares of £50 each, the object being to purchase 410 acres of the Bassett Darley subdivision. The first directors are Messrs H. Wolstenholme, E T Jones, J T Ralston, J Young, and H R Nolan. NOTES AND COMMENTS. (1911, June 3). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 15. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15239859 

When the 'Barranjoey' Land Company was formally registered in June 1911 the first directors were named as Harry Wolstenholme (son of Maybanke Wolstenholme Anderson of Bayview), Ernest Trevor Jones, John Thompson Ralston (father of John Malbon Ralston, a founding Member of the PBSLSC who had attempted to save Johanna Rogers and Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Marks DSO, MC, in 1920 and which initiated the setting up of the surf club in 1921), James Young, and Herbert Russell Nolan. Many of these partners were either students together at Newington College, the well-known Wesleyan School at Stanmore, or related through marriages - James Young, for instance, was the solicitor for Ada Blanche Wolstenholme, the widow of James Wolstenholme, grandfather to Harry Wolstenholme. James Young was also another in generations of Youngs who had tended to the legal matters of the Wolstenholme family - as shown when James Wolstenholme (the youngers') will is ratified in 1911 and assets in real estate placed under Blanche and a new Trustee:




In July 1911 and October 1911, Ernest Trevor-Jones, solicitor, and the wife of Harry Wolstenholme, Edith Lucy, bought the parcel of land and conveyed this to the then just registered Barrenjoey Company. The bulk of this, including the whole of Palm Beach and most of Whale Beach, including over the hills to Careel Bay, became that owned by the Barrenjoey Company - although the Trevor-Jones family held onto Block 19, at the southern end of the beach and ranging over the hill to Careel Bay, with this placed in the name of Margaret Trevor-Jones, the wife of Ernest. 

Transactions from HRLV: Book 939-800 and 944-259(Lot 1 and 19) provide:



The Certificate of Title for the Barrenjoey Company Limited series is Volume 2289 – Folio 43, which will also bring up, if you use this to search through the Historical Land Records View (HRLV) those early lands sales until they sold what was left to the 1924 formed Palm Beach Lands company; See Vol-Fol: 3758-71 for the Palm Beach Land Co. phase. 

In January 1912 the first land releases were advertised for sale – Book 956-Volume 82 shows that a James A Ramsay and David B Ramsay loaned £1500 on Lots 2-18, the Palm Beach-Whale Beach sections, to facilitate these sales. Interestingly, the company dedicated the beachfront reserve to the Warringah Shire Council at this time, although that was not ratified until they were selling the remainder to the Palm Beach Land Company in 1920, which was formalised in 1924, when those dedications were also formalised with the council.

One person who attended that initial sale tells us:

BEAUTIFUL PALM BEACH, BARRENJOEY.

How many of the Sydney folk have heard of Palm Beach, situated on the neck of land ad-joining the Barrenjoey Lighthouse reserve and Pittwater Harbor ? One of those most glorious spots, given by Nature to the Sydneyites, where rest from the weary toils of the week may be enjoyed. As a comparative stranger in your midst, I would never, perhaps, have feasted on its exceptional beauty and the environs surrounding it had I not chanced upon a small red booklet, circulated on account of a land sale held there on Friday afternoon. 

I took the trip, at a cost of 2/6 return — cheap enough in all conscience ! — and on arrival at the pretty little jetty on the estate was so charmed with the natural beauties and picturesqueness of the scene that I feel it a duty to enlighten others of this most charming spot. A glorious day, one of happy Sydney's best, and the beauty of the scene at Palm Beach will long live in my memory. The harbor, with its beach of sand, hard and white, its clear and placid waters for the children, the wild, natural scenery of the hills, the living fragrance of the bush and the beautiful Palm Beach for the surfers, with its ever sounding ocean roar, contrasting strangely with the harbor's peace, and calm, the stately palms in the numerous gullies, and the whole scene clothed with a sea and sky, of exquisite blue. From the hills cape after cape comes into view, both north and south, and to the west we see the Pittwater Harbor, with its numerous bays, "The Basin," Kuringai Chase, the majestic and awe-inspiring Lion island, Ettalong, and several other points of interest. If you have never been to Palm Beach, go. It would be difficult for me to express the treat in store. There is nothing I have seen on your coast to approach it, and it is a matter of much wonder to me that with a splendid service of cars from Manly, and subsidised by a regular launch service (1 1/2 hour from Manly), it has not been availed of ere this. 

The opening up of the estate will probably attract the populace, and I am informed Palm Beach is an ideal surfing one, and with all its other natural attractions should bring many an advocate to the shrine of its temple. The land facing the beach has been dedicated to the Council as a reserve for a public park. I understand that every lot was sold at satisfactory prices, including the pretty little bungalow residence recently erected, and the vendors must be highly complimented on opening up such a beauty spot for the permanent use of the people. BEAUTIFUL PALM BEACH, BARRENJOEY. (1912, January 28). Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), p. 12. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126060685 


                                                  Barrenjoey - Palm Beach Estate - Pittwater - Barranjoey Rd 1912 - part of brochure. Item: c052700024, courtesy State Library of NSW

The first land sales attracted those who liked access limitations by the lack of built roads.  The Palm Beach Road which runs over the hill from Barrenjoey road just before Observation Point, was the only southern access point for residents and visitors alike to the beachfront itself. Barrenjoey road itself was little more than a dusty, dirt and rock strewn track.

Those who wanted to build weekenders of homes of any size had to offload materials at Snapperman beach, alongside the current day Palm Beach wharf, or further north, on to the southern end of Station beach, and hire contractors, usually the ones who were also building these places, the Verrills, Gonsalves et al, to move them via horse and wagon.


Description beneath photograph - 'On the Pittwater side, linking the last hill before descent to Barranjoey', November 21, 1909 - Allan family Album. Courtesy State Library of NSW

James Brown Craig, the middle brother of the Craig family members who bought so much land and then built homes at Palm Beach, bought the lots next door to the Palladium years earlier than when this was registered. In 1915 Mary Brown Craig (wife of Francis Brown Craig - youngest son) acquired three blocks on Sunrise Hill (Lots 161, 162, 163) where Craigie-Lee was built - set in what is now Canara Place (off Pacific road), Maria Graeme Craig had a cottage (circa 1915-16 - Lot 42 bought by Robert Gordon Craig registered July 17 1918 Vol-Fol: 2861-62) bought Lots 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38, over 2 acres, Vol/ Fol: 2861-63 Cert. of Title registered July 18, 1918. Maria was the wife of Dr. Robert Gordon Craig. Here their family would later built what is known as 'The Pink House'.

James Brown Craig bought Lots 61, 62 and 63, north of the Palladium, with the Certificate of Title registered in April 1921 from Vol-Fol 3172-113:




James, who worked at his father's company, Prescott & co. Pty Ltd "Commission Agents, Produce and Wholesale, Provision Merchants, Auctioneers", had a house named Tigh-Na-Mara (Scottish Gaelic 'the house of the sea') was built next door to The Palladium but no longer exists - a victim of fire. A property given the same name was rebuilt on the same site, eventually was sold to the Toohey family and held by hem for five decades, and recently sold again.

The house named Tigh-Na-Mara is present in the landscape prior to the Certificate of Title being registered and predates the late 1920 early 1921 finished Peters residence that is the current Palm Beach SLSC Clubhouse:



Tigh-Na-Mara. Enlarged sections from EB Studios (Sydney, N.S.W.). (circa 1917-1924). Panorama of Palm Beach, New South Wales, 7 Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-162484891

Raine and Horne Ltd at their indoor auction sale next Thursday will submit the following:
Palm Beach Tigh-Na-Mara Ocean road modern bungalow close to beach with five rooms garage etc with or without furniture 
Richard Stanton and Sons, Ltd., report that at their next auction sale, to be held in their rooms, Stanton House, 133 Pitt-street, Sydney. next Tuesday, October 18, the following properties will be offered:
Palm Beach, furnished cottage, five rooms,etc known as Miami, Florida-road, REAL ESTATE. (1934, October 13). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 8. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17141623

This was one of the places from which an Honourable former Prime Minister of Australia could be heard 'yelling through Christmas' for years:

SURFING enthusiast at Palm Beach these days is the Hon. W. M. Hughes, who is staying at Tigh-Na-Mara, goes for his dip in the early mornings and again in the afternoons. At the same address are Joy Minnett, Betty Oxenham, and Gwenda Ashcroft. ROUND THE TOWN. (1940, January 5). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 4. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29889262

Tigh-Na-Mara was passed in for private treaty.


Advertising (1947, January 8). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 17. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27904234

NEWEST and smartest playground for the social set is Bob Stephen's Palm Beach Country Club on Ocean Road . . . you may remember the hostelry as former guest house Tigh-Na-Mara. Look Who's Here (1948, October 28). The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), p. 15 (LATE FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article231146714

Bill's research found that on the 2nd of August 1923, Edward Harold Fulcher Swain purchased what would become the Palladium land from Barrenjoey Company Limited. At this time the lot had two street frontages with Ocean Road at the bottom and Sunrise Road at the top of the lot. The lot had an area of two roods, seventeen and three-quarters perches, and measured 66 feet wide and 420 feet long. 

The Certificate of Title for Mr. Swain's Lot is registered in Volume 3486 – Folio 50 on August 2nd, 1923:




Edward (1883-1970), a forester, who was born at Balmain and attended the University of Sydney in 1901, Sydney Technical College in 1902 and studied eucalypts under J. H. Maiden at the National Herbarium of New South Wales in 1904, was a brother to Edith Muriel Maitland Swain (1880-1964), public servant and physical-fitness advocate, who bought 1112 to 1118 Barrenjoey road, Palm Beach (lot 36 in 1918 and Lots 34 and 35 in 1925) where the old Palm Beach burger place once stood, just north of Barrenjoey House.

Lawrence Gallagher, a WWI veteran who owned Florida House, won the contract to build Ocean Road in the second half of 1926. This is likely to have been built by his then great mates the Verrills and Gonsalves men with Laurie. The Gonsalves were also founding Members, with Laurie, of the permanent residents part of Palm Beach Surf Life Saving Club.  Records from Warringah Shire Council Minutes of Meetings provide:

9th of February, 1925

Resolved, - 9(Crs. Hewitt, Hitchcock) That the construction of Ocean Road, Palm Beach, from its junction with Palm Beach Road, southward, in accordance with the (Vote) Engineer's report, at an estimated cost of £678 be carried out. Resolved, - (Crs. Hitchcock, Atkins) That prices for the work be obtained by tender and compared with the Engineer's Estimate. 

Going north: 

61. Palm Beach Progress Asst. 2/1/1926. setting out the matters which the Association desires the Council to give attention to Resolved, - (Crs. Hitchcock. Simpson) That a "Caution - Drive Slowly" SIGN that the requested notice be erected on Ocean Road; for the extension of Ocean Road northward to Phillip Park be referred to A. Riding representatives for their consideration, and that the Association be informed of the of Council's intentions regarding the other matters.

5th of July, 1926: Ocean Road Tenders

10. Resolved, - (Crs. Hitchcock, Hope) That tenders be called, for the construction of Ocean Road from the intersection of Palm Beach Road northward, in accordance with the Engineer's Report. 46. E. Kenny 28.6.26. submitting, on behalf of Palm Beach  Lands, Ltd. plan of subdivision of about 2 acres of land, between Nos 2 and 3 Subdivisions of Forssberg Estate' (Dealt with in Engineer's report)

July 19th, 1926:

E. Kenny 14.7.26. submitting D.P. of 10th Subdivision of Palm Beach Estate : Referred to the Engineer.

Two tenders were received for the construction of Ocean Road, Palm Beach, and it was resolved, - (Crs. Simpson,. Hitchcock) That the lowest tender, that of L. Gallagher for £399/10/.., be accepted, and the Contractor be notified not to touch the big boulders on the beach, and that this be made a part of the Contract.

The works had been completed by later that year as the Minutes of Meetings record:

17, Palm Beach Recreation Club. Ltd. 22.11.26. advising that the Club has appointed Mr. Harriman as Caretaker of the Park; Governor requesting(1) that two signposts indicating the camping areas Phillip be erected, another at the end of the road indicating - "To Park. Ocean Road and Surf", a double one at the junction of New Road, indicating ‘’To Barrenjoey" and to "Ocean Beach and Surf", and (2) that the fees collected from campers be applied towards paying the wages of the caretaker. Resolved, - (Oms. Hope, Hitchcock) That the signs be erected, as requested. Resolved,. (Crs. Hitchcock, Hope) That Caretaker Harriman be given authority to collect camping fees, the fees to be applied towards the payment of his wages. He also be appointed as Honorary Ranger of the Park, - the appointment to be under seal of the Council. 

WSC Minutes of Meeting held 6th of December, 1926:
6-. Resolved, - (Crs. Simpson, Hitchcock) That £20 extra be voted for making trafficable that portion of Ocean Road  (Vote) outside of Gallagher's Contract.

With access along the beachfront now secured those Lots of land now became attractive and their value went up as a consequence.

Edward Swain subdivided the lot into two, and on the 2nd of May 1929, he sold the lower lot (64b) to Joseph Henry Graham (of Coogee, Foreman Joiner). The Certificate of Title is registered in Volume 4294 – Folio 164. On the 20th of August 1946, he sold the top lot (64a) to Ivan George Philips (Potts Point Manufacture). Joseph Henry Graham's Certificate of Title, registered June 28th 1929, for lot 64a is Volume 4294 – Folio 164, the Palladium Lot:




John Thomas Pike, later a Contractor, then just a Carpenter, won the bid to build the Palladium on the lot. With places like Jonahs at Whale Beach newly opened, and Barrenjoey House becoming popular, both of which offered some accommodation that compared well with boarding houses such as Florida House, along with food, the Barrenjoey end of the peninsula was set to become the premier Sydney holiday location. 

Listings of works approved show Mr. Pike also won a bid to do works for the Palm Beach Golf Links at the same time -:

Buildings and Works Approved
MISCELLANEOUS
Palm Beach. — Paladium Building (shops and Offices), Ocean-Road..— Mr. Pike, Strathfield. 
Golf Links, Barrenjoey Road. — Mr. Pike, Barrenjoey Road, Strathfield. Buildings and Works Approved (1930, November 26). Construction and Real Estate Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1930 - 1938), p. 2. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130908566 

The design and materials still extant point to an art deco aircraft hangar influence in style. With the new owner, Joseph Henry Graham, listed by occupation as a 'Foreman Joiner' and also among the records of those who served in France in World War I and witnessed the first aircraft flights there, and his build occurring soon after Charles Kingsford Smith crossed the Pacific Ocean, the first transpacific flight, and a short time before he piloted the first flight between Australia and New Zealand, it would be hard not to see the aircraft and aircraft hangar influence here. 

It's also worth remembering that these first planes were built from wood and became airborne due to the skilled craftsmen who built them; joiners, carpenters, and the foremen who were both.

The Palladium building at Palm Beach is the epitome of a 1930's aircraft hangar. Called ''Streamline Moderne'', this style of architecture was inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasised curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial design, it was used in railroad locomotives, telephones, toasters, buses, appliances, and other devices to give the impression of sleekness and modernity.

Records confirm the Palladium was already built by late 1931.


Macquarie Grove Airfield in the 1930s at Camden, Sydney. Photo courtesy Camden Images.


Palladium, Palm Beach - 2019



Charles Kingsford Smith at Palm Beach after a surfing session, circa 1929-1931 (Chorley's 'The Rest' to left behind him). Source: The Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW.  NB: his brother, Wilfrid Kingsford-Smith, had a place in Pittwater. 

During World War I, Charles Kingsford Smith, known as ‘Smithy’, served in the Australian Imperial Force before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps. He was awarded the Military Cross for bravery after being badly wounded in one dogfight. On his return home he set up as a bush pilot and established a small airline with two colleagues, Keith Anderson and Bob Hitchcock, working throughout the 1920's until he was approached by Charles Ulm in 1928 to take that transpacific flight. The 1920s and 1930s were the golden age of record-breaking flights, and this was incorporated into our buildings as well as everyday items, and even wearable fashion. This persisted for years in architecture - another example is the Bayview art deco premises 'Little Mountain'. 


Arrival of Charles Kingsford Smith in "Southern Cross" at Eagle Farm Aerodrome, Brisbane, Australia, after first crossing of the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco, 9 June 1928. Photo: Queensland State Archives

Australian National Airways was founded by Charles Ulm and Charles Kingsford Smith in 1929 and began operations in January 1930. They flew Avro 618 Tens, similar aircraft to Kingsford Smith's famous Southern Cross. However, the airline folded in 1931 after the crash of VH-UMF Southern Cloud in the Australian Alps between Sydney and Melbourne, and VH-UNA Southern Sun in Malaya. Tom Perry, a Narromine grazier and philanthropist who was the enthusiastic president of the local aero club provided financial backing to a new venture, which Wilfrid Kingsford Smith was due to start a few months later. From 1932 Wilfred Kingsford Smith travelled from Adelaide to Goulburn establishing regional air travel and airmail as W.A.S.P (Western and Southern Provincial) Air Lines. Despite this being the Depression era, this new business seemed to flourish. In 1933 the brothers were planning on extending air travel and airmail to New Zealand.

The Palladium soon became a popular dance place, utilised by the PBSLSC as a place to hold events to raise much needed funding for heir volunteer activities. Some Notices and insights from the pages of the past provide:

Two dances are being organised at Palm Beach, to raise funds for the Palm Beach Surf Life Saving Club; The first will be held on the evening of Boxing Day, and the second on New Year's Eve. Both will take place at the Palladium, on the ocean beach. The ticket secretaries are Mrs. A. Samuels and Mr. Burford Dawson. NEAR AND FAR. (1932, December 16).The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 3. Retrieved fromhttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16938531 

I HAD A NOTE to tell me that the usual shorts and shirts parties — well, at least for the men folk — will be arranged again this year by the Palm Beach Surf Club, and the two dances will be held at the Palladium at this popular colony tomorrow night and New Year's Eve. Mrs Samuels, Rod Brown, Pete Hunter, and Adrian Curlewis are the leading lights behind the plans, and tickets may be procured from all club members at the club. CHRISTMAS 1932 (1932, December 25). The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), p. 20. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230578167

The Palm Beach Surf Life Saving Club was moved from their 'shed' in to be named Hordern Reserve in 1929 to the beachfront - they would purchase Chorley's circa 1914 built 'The Rest' after he passed away, in 1936, but prior to that had to fund any improvements to the new structure, on the beach, themselves - 

PALM BEACH. DISPUTE ABOUT CLUBHOUSE.

Warringah Shire Council has decided that the Palm Beach Surf Club's club-house must be pulled down and that any new structure must be erected on a more suitable site. The existing club-house, a plain erection on a public reserve, has been the subject of an offer by Mr. J. A. Hordern, who has expressed his willingness to lend the council £100 for improvements to the reserve, and to assist the club financially towards the erection of a new building.

It has been stated that the members of the surf club did not want to move, and Councillor Corkery said that if they would not go, the club should be disbanded and a paid life-saver put on the beach. It would never do to allow the council to be dictated to by the club, which was on the beach for the purpose of life-saving only. The council will have a meeting with Mr. Hordern and the members of the surf club, to discuss the question of finance. PALM BEACH. (1929, July 10). The Sydney Morning Herald(NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 19. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16546792

PALM BEACH CLUB-HOUSE.  

In a letter to the Editor, the captain of the Palm Beach Surf Saving Club (Mr. Kenneth Hunter) states that there has been no dispute with the Warringah Shire Council. Discussions that have taken place with regard to new premises for the club have been of a most harmonious character. PALM BEACH CLUB-HOUSE. (1929, July 11). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 12. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16568126

PALM BEACH SURF CLUB HUT.  

The Palm Beach Surf Club's hut is to be removed from its present situation in a valuable public reserve to a more suitable site, near the centre of the beach. The Warringah Shire council will erect the new hut, which will cost £300. PALM BEACH SURF CLUB HUT. (1929, August 31). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 22. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16579961

By December 1929 this building opened, south of the council dressing sheds. This structure comprised a club room, shower room, casualty room, lavatory, verandah and boatshed. Water came via a well and windmill, with any additions funded by members.


Photo caption: 'Palm Beach as it was' - note PBSLSC bunkhouse/clubhouse building in background with dark walls and light coloured roof. The Club applied to place a room for surfboards underneath but was knocked back by the council. Clearly simply stacking them against the exterior walls for quick access was practised. From: (Vol. 20 No. 2 1 February 1939 ). The Palm Beach myth, The Home : an Australian quarterly Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-389607884

The dances at the Palladium provided this funding - a few examples of those record raising funds at this venue occurred throughout the establishment of facilities for PBSLSC Members from the beachfront 'clubhouse' into the Chorley years for what today is known as the Cabbage Tree Club:

NEAR AND FAR.

Three hundred visitors, many of whom motored from Sydney for the occasion, were present at the successful dance held at the Palladium, Palm Beach, last night, to raise funds for the Palm Beach Surf Life-Saving Club. Hosts and hostesses who are entertaining large house-parties took their guests to the dance, adding to the record attendance. Another dance will be held at the Palladium on New Year's Eve, with the same object. Mrs. A. Samuels and Mr. Burford Dawson, who were the hon. secretaries for last nights dance, are also arranging next Saturday's party.  NEAR AND FAR. (1932, December 27). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16941077

The list of attendees for the New Years' dance at the Palladium, again to rise funds for the surf club, lists a who's who of Palm Beach surf club and visitors during this era:

PALM BEACH DANCE

SHORTS, SHIRTS AND SLACKS

Palm Beach Surf Club's dance at the Palladium on New Year's eve was a specially bright affair, and eclipsing, in gaiety and attendance, all previous records for the club's revelries.

SHORTS, shirts, and pyjamas' were the wear, some of the men's outfits eclipsing the women's in brilliance. Conspicuous among these was a man In scarlet shirt and light blue shorts— the latter complete with one ferocious-looking dagger in the belt. Doug. Levy tied a gay scarlet bandana, cowboy fashion, round his neck, while brother Pat's canary pullover, blue shorts, and scarlet golf hose made a bright blotch , of color. Mrs. Graham Body, who has taken to brushing- her auburn hair straight back from her forehead, looked cool in blue and white spotted pyjamas. Mrs. Betty Grlgson wore quaint overalls of blue and white checked gingham, which were a piquant contrast to the pink embroidered silken suit tavored by Mrs. Laurie Foster. 

HANDKERCHIEF TOPS 

Joy White, from Muswellbrook, chose chocolate flannel slacks, and tied a gaily patterned silk handkerchief round the top. Mrs. Alrenn Samuels, In black satin trousers, also favored the handkerchief top, and was so busy with her official duties she scarcely found tlmo to danoe. Others In the huge crowd which romped and -formed crocodiles round the room at the stroke of 'midnight were Mr. and Mrs. John Gunning, Mr. and Mrs. Hunter McPherson, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Vincent. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Keep, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Lloyd-Jones, Mrs. Walter Keith-Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. Graham Pratten, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Prat-ten, Mr. and Mrs. Doug. Doyle, Mr. and Mrs. George Mervale, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cohen. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Dlbbs. Also In the throng were Mrs. Fat Levy, Mrs. R. A. Eakln. Mrs. J. W. Plckburn, Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd, Mr. and Mrs. John Wardlaw. Barbara and Sheila Smart, Pamela Osborne. Pamela McPhlllamy, Babe Pain, Noel Boyd, Mary Adams, Cherry Davles. Mary Wells. Joan Ord, Pauline McDonald. Janle Kelth-EUlott, Muriel Cob-croft, Margaret Hagon, Dletje Andrlesse. Nancy McNaught, Audrey Favlell, Jean Ruthven. AUne Edwards, and Nuttle Mackellar (fresh from the Strathaird cruise), Betty Stuart Murray, Peggy Street, Elsie McWillam, Mollie Wolfcarius, Peggy Royle, the George Chapmans, Pat McDonald, Audrey Peters, Madeline Mackay-Sim, Mrs. Dick Kirby, Peter Stewart, Owen Rees, Lieutenant and Mrs. Max Clark. 

OXFORD BLAZER 

Other dancers were Sam Hordern (who wore his Oxford blazer), Captain Beale, Angus Macpherson, Dick Royle, Alastair Alexander, Paddy Kenny, Keith Hardie, Captain de Traftord. Ken Hall, Alan Major, Asenath, and Bruce Rylance, Adrian Curlewis, Hugh Luscombe-Newman, John Wood, Claude Healy. Dr. Seelos, John Hawkes, Elton Ifould. George Elfbeck, Neville Malley, Bing Carson, Pete Hunter, Jim Fraser, Laurie Foster, and John Ralston. PALM BEACH DANCE (1933, January 2). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), p. 3. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article247100323

Brevities 
A KIND of farewell- to- Palm-Beach-night is being held tomorrow at the popular seaside resort. The event is really to raise more money to pay off the debt of the Surf Life Saving Clubhouse, which cost £170 to build. The Christmas and New Year dances realised £125 and the club members arc holding the dance to-morrow night with the idea of attracting those people whose house-parties have already broken up, and those for whom the dance may be a final gay flutter — incidentally wiping off the balance of the debt. The Palladium, Palm Beach, will be the ballroom again. Brevities (1933, January 27). The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), p. 6 (CRICKET STUMPS). Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228913632

Warringah Shire Records of Meetings show a Clifton Wooden was applying to make petrol supplies available outside the Palladium in 1933:

C.R. Wooden, 28/8/33, applying for permission to erect a Petrol petrol pump in front of "The Palladium" on the ocean beach at Palm Beach. Resolved, 4 That the Engineer inspect and decide whether permission should be granted. Crs. Hitchcock; Sterland

Geoff and Bill's research shows permission was granted because two filler covers are still visible on the footpath at the northern end of the building in some of the Milton family photos. One could also assume that the fuel tank remains as the filler covers are still in place. Interestingly, none of the current historical photos show the fuel pump itself.

Ray Henman, whose family had a garage on the Pittwater side, shared some family photos in his 2022 Profile that indicate what may have been in place.


Palm Beach garage on Pittwater side of Palm Beach (near and in current day line of shops). Photo: Ray Henman family albums.

Clifton Wooden also 'made the papers' for:

SLY GROG SOLD AT PALM BEACH. FINE OF £30 IMPOSED

For selling liquor without a licence at the Palladium, Palm Beach, on November 11, Duncan Osborne, 57, storeman, was fined £30 or 60 days by Mr. Arnott, S.M., in the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday. Clifton Wooden, 27, storekeeper, charged with appearing and manager of the premises and having  failed to produce the authority to sell liquor, was fined £10 or 20 days.  SLY-GROG SOLD AT PALM BEACH (1933, November 21). The Labor Daily (Sydney, NSW : 1924 - 1938), p. 6. Retrieved  from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237909123

Duncan was selling beer. The dances went on though:

Society Plays Up in the Moonlight: .
KICKING 1933 IN THE SLATS
How They Did It At Palm Beach
! WHAT A NIGHT! 
And What a Morning After
THERE was a sound of revelry by night. Palm Beach was about to see in the New Year. Not on Sunday night, mark you; but on Saturday night. Any old night between Christmas and New Year is likely to become New Year's Eve at Palm Beach. The dance at the Palladium was in full swing. Things were commencing to liven at the Laurie Foster's big party in their pretty green bungalow on the side of the hill. And all the while Old Man Barren joey winked a wicked beam from his single eye on the revellers. 
....
WHEN "Smith's" arrived at Palm Beach on Saturday afternoon, all was quiet on the ocean front. Most of the holiday makers had gone to Pittwater to witness the regatta. But two or three notices, displayed here and there on trees and fences, indicated that matters would liven up in the next few hours. "Get your aspirin and ice at the local store while the supplies last," read one notice. Another bore the direction: "Private detectives park here." A third read: "No more bottle-ohs need apply. The twenty successful applicants can start work at once." About nine o'clock, the dancers began to arrive at the Palladium, and one of the first to take the floor was Eric Campbell, with his wife. Eric was coatless and sported a blue shirt. "Just for to-night I am General O'Duffy," he laughingly told "Smith's." 

Soon the hall was packed with hundreds of dancers. Young girls and matrons alike danced in slacks, shorts, and gaily striped pyjamas, while most of the men sported open shirts and shorts. The night was hot, and mosquitoes buzzed, but everyone was happy. Here, in a quiet corner, a couple kissed surreptitiously, while there, a lad, armed with a mosquito spray, hosed the bare and shapely legs of the girls as they drifted by. A bewitching creature in biscuit-colored pyjamas, with a rope of amber beads around her lovely white neck, smiled into her sweetheart's eyes. Some night, some moon, some wonderful girl! Most of the dancers glided smoothly to the haunting strains of the jazz band, while others were almost grotesque in their endeavors to trip' the light fantastic. Eric Campbell, with head erect and graceful carriage, might have been an expert dancer but for his recent acquisition of weight. One of the most charming dancers on the floor was Miss Mary Wells in black open shirt, and black slacks. 

Captain Rex Beale, dancing with Mrs. Alrema Samuels, looked suspiciously upon "Smith's" and whispered to his partner that he thought Sergeant Chuck was "among those present." But all this gaiety was only a preliminary, an aperitif an appetiser for what was to follow. About eleven o'clock, the dancers began to dwindle, for lots were leaving and wending their way up the hillside to the charming residence of Mr. and Mrs. Laurie Foster. Mr. Foster extended an 1'nvltation to "Smith's" to be present. On our way up to the party, a little after midnight, we tripped over a couple of Scots in kilts. They were resting by the roadway, and seemed to have lost all interest in the festivities. Their bagpipes were nearby, deserted, looking like murdered turkeys. Here, at the Foster's, was a party, indeed — an orgy of music, dancing, cocktails, and other refreshments, frankfurts and potato chips — a whirlwind party made up of sixty people, mostly in startling fancy dress. And everyone was called "playmate." There was Mr. Foster himself in- a Chinese costume. His wife was charming in white slacks. Eric Campbell still . had his blue shirt. Mrs. Kitty Hay made a striking gipsy, and also of the party were Mrs. D. Kirby, Mr. and Mts. Noel Richards, Colleen Gray, as a Chinese girl, and her fair sister, Goldie; Kirrie Cade, Kath Hay, Mrs. Merle Poulton, Mr. and Mrs. Toykander, Miss Waddell, Bill Dawson, Mrs. Trikojus, Dr. Lee Brown, Mr. Pat Levy (a South Sea Islander), Mrs. Betty Grlgson, Mr. Doug. Levy, who made an excellent study of Gandhi, his wife as a Javanese; Mrs. Alrema Samuels, Mr. Byron Wrigley, Mr. Peter Horlick, Mr. Bill McMahon, Mr. Byng Carson, Mr. Alan Major, a "Night of the Bath," Bobble... as an overgrown kid, his wife as a Fijian, Lin Armytage as a sheik, or, perhaps, it was a ghost; Nancy Mac-naught, yet another Chinese; Dr. Rex Money, the modern woman; Mr. and Mrs. John Gunning, .Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hyne, Miss Babe Pain, Dr. Hal Cram... Miss Sheila.

Lowe, Captain Rex Beale, Mrs. Audrey Favlell, as a jockey, and Mr. John Hedge. The party finished when the sun was peeping over the horizon. That morning — but not too early — the revellers straggled down to the beach, and lay about lazily under huge sunshades. Eric Campbell sprawled over the sand in a maroon costume and topee. Mary Durham— jet black hair and spark-....white costume with red straps. There were many beautiful chassis spread over those golden sands. Mrs. Laurie Foster was there in a blue costume, enjoying a siesta under a big silk sunshade. Her husband strolled around, lost in thought. Colleen Gray sported a red and white costume. Her sister Goldie, vaunted a backless white (and howl), and Kirrie Cade wore blue, Doug. Levy had a 1926 model in faded blue. His wife, Barbara, looked wonderfully fresh "the morning after the night before." Pat Levy, in woollen shorts, displayed a hairy chest, but not quite so hairy as that which brother Doug, revealed when he rolled his costume down. Dr. Matt Banks accompanied his wife to the beach, and received congratulations on his fresh and spruce appearance. Mr. Ronald Bruce Walker, M.L.A.. propelled his long shanks over the sands. With him were his wife, Mrs. Stuart Mitchell, and Mr. Bruce Tebbutt. Dr. Hal Cramsie engaged Miss Heather Field and Miss Sheila Lowe in animated conversation while Mrs. "Sammy" Samuels stretched out on the sand, allowing the sun to do its best and worst to the epidermis of her pretty back. Pyjamas of every hue were to be seen on the beach. Some were floral, others were striped like zebras and snakes. One young girl, who had nothing stronger than two cups of tea the night before, complained of a hangover ! But you must do that at Palm Beach. You simply must have a hang-over !! Lots of the beach loungers — you could hardly call them surfers — had acquired a lovely bronze. Most resembled cooked lobsters. During the morning, a couple of people were carried out by the surf, but even such distressing events failed to arouse much interest in the weary gathering. 

Captain Rex Beale was responsible for a magnificent rescue, but his brave deed passed almost unnoticed. That day, Reg. Prevost entertained Admiral Dalgleish. In the evening, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Wilshire held a big cocktail party at their, home, "Kendall," and, later, the hosts and guests went to the Palladium to an invitation dance to see the real New Year's Eve in. The dance, which began at midnight, was a great success, but tame when compared with the revels of the night before. The night was cool with sea breezes and the moon shone brightly; but there was something missing. Perhaps it was the aroma of fried chips and frankfurts. Anyhow, so far as Palm Beach was concerned, New Year's Eve had passed twenty-four hours before.

A trio at the Palladium. — Mr. "Chang" or "Tarsan" Mackenzie, one of the 50 police trainees....


Miss Edna Ottoway, and Mrs. Alrema ("Sammy")Samuels. 

ABOVE RIGHT. . — Miss Ruth Allen, of Point Piper, looked very attractive in her black and white striped slacks as she danced at the Palladium with her fiancé, Mr. Charlie Buchanan,- of Point Piper: ... Society Plays Up in the Moonlight: Intimate Flashlight Photos on Page 6 (1934, January 6). Smith's Weekly (Sydney, NSW : 1919 - 1950), p. 1. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article235489082 

WHEN THE SECOND-WETTEST PLACE IS THE SEA  
Midnight Merrymakers coolly and informally dressed, caught by the nightflash camera of PIX at Palm Beach.  “The Spirit of Palm Beach?” Some say it’s gin; others, whisky. This picture shows Tim Osborne, one of the  well-knowns, preferring beer.  Car Bars at Palm Beach are common when dances are held at the  Palladium, a small hall near the beach. Palm Beach lacks elaborate  rooms, so most drinking is done at the parked cars of the smart set. They  are usually well-stocked with liquor.  
Bare-Legged Dancers. Formal evening dress is scorned at Palm Beach  parties. Shorts and sandals are worn by both sexes.  



(1938). WHEN THE SECOND-WETTEST PLACE IS THE SEA, Pix Retrieved  from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-500889368  Vol. 1 No.1 (29 January 1938)

A few more of those Palladium interiors for this 1938 End of Summer dance from 'Palm Beach, 6 January 1938' photographed by Ray Olson, courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy ACP Magazines Ltd. that ran and didn't run in that Issue of the PIX Magazine:






Warringah Shire Council records parking improvements:

October 11th, 1938: The SHIRE ENGINEER'S ADDITIONAL Supplementary REPORT was dealt with as follows:- ... 2. Palm Beach Parking Area - Suggesting a vote of £100 for extension of the parking area at Ocean Road in front of The Palladium; Resolved (Crs. Nicholas, Butcher) - That this be referred to the Works Committee.

October 3rd, 1939: Parking By Cr. Hitchcock - Will you direct that the Police Department be requested to agree to the erection of "No Parking" signs on the western side of Ocean Road between The Palladium and Governor Phillip Park? By Cr. Hitchcock Could the adjustment of the areas of the camping lots on Governor Phillip Park be expedited? 


Corner of Palm Beach and Ocean roads, circa 1937-39. Photo: Goddard family

It was a place Whale Beach SLSC utilised for their annual events and fundraisers as well:

SURF BOAT DANCE

The Whale Beach Surf Club's social committee will hold a dance at the Palladium, Palm Beach, tonight, to raise funds towards providing the club with a surf-boat. SURF BOAT DANCE (1938, March 5). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), p. 19. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article247470278

WHALE BEACH SURFERS

Trophies won by Whale Beach Surf Life Saving Club members last season will be presented at the club's dance, at the Palladium, Palm Beach, tonight. The annual meeting will be held tomorrow, in the public dressing sheds, at 3 p.m. WHALE BEACH SURFERS (1940, October 5). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), p. 14. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article247610845

Joseph Henry Graham defaulted on his loan, and this resulted in a mortgagee sale. In 1943, the Palladium was sold for £1550 by Richard and Wrench Ltd.

PALM BEACH THE PALLADIUM OCEAN ROAD Shop and Dance Hall - Cafe with small Dwelling at rear. Mortgagee sale. RICHARDSON and WRENCH LTD Auctioneers. Advertising (1943, September 30). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17862881

On the 24th of January 1944, Starr and Bowkett Building Co-operative Society No 7 Limited sold the property to Jessie Eliza Milton (nee Atkins), the wife of Leslie Fredrick Milton (Palm Beach Garage Proprietor). Their son Allan Maxwell 'Max' Milton would marry Ruth 'Peggy' Gertrude Hammond of the Hammond dairy family at Careel Bay. 
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The August 29th, 1944 - Warringah Shire Council Minutes record:  

J. E. Milton's proposed alterations at "The Palladium'', Palm  Beach, That approval be granted.

It is likely that the precast cement 'dining room' window boxes were added at this time. They are not visibly present in the above photo from between 1937 and 1939. 

Then, as now, Council permission needed to be gained to add signage to anything facing a main street. Later Milton family photos show these were made to stand out, although not large to begin with, through the application of a darker colour on the lettering backed by white relief or a white panted background for the main walls of the building, as can be szeen in the postcard below.


Palladium, ABHS  Postcard: Murray Series - Views No. 7 - the photo this was taken from:



On one side of the Palladium building the precast cement 'Dining Room' widow boxes have been retained.

The other main change soon after the Milton family took over was to change the dance hall to a dining hall, permanently:

THEATERS AND PUBLIC HALLS ACT. 1908-1940.
PROCLAMATION.

(L.s.) F. U. JORDAN, Lieutenant-Governor.

If is hereby notified that Part II of the abovecited Act shall no longer apply to the premises specified in the appended Schedule, as such premises have ceased to be used for public entertainment purposes.

Signed and sealed at Sydney this 10th day of July, 1946.

By His Excellency Command - J.M. Baddeley 

GOD SAVE THE KING!

...

Palm Beach, The Palladium.

THEATERS AND PUBLIC HALLS ACT, 1908-1940.—PROCLAMATION. (1946, July 26). Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001), p. 1695. Retrieved  from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224791391 

With the 'dance hall' aspect of the Palladium gone the focus was on providing food and also general store supplies, which the Milton family excelled at into the early 1960's.


Palm Beach beachfront, 1946. Item: FL3736087, courtesy NSW State Records and Archives - Note the scalloped top to the building in this image from the Milton family albums




On the 28th of June 1963, the property was sold to Alexander Laurence Rentoul (Kirribilli Manager) and on the 14th of April 1967, he leased the property to William Julian Moore (Palm Beach Restaurateur). Alexander had a loan from the National Bank of Australia Limited. The mortgage was discharged on the 22nd of August 1969.

On the 18th of April 1969, the property was transferred to Naroma Investments Pty Ltd On the 22nd of August 1973, the property was transferred to William Skountzos and Leo Papadolias as joint tenants.

Johnny 'Super' Stewart, the famous speedway racer and Wallamatta Road, Newport resident, owned the restaurant in the building back in the early 1970s according to residents memories of dining there. Then it was called the 'Blue Pacific Restaurant'. It passed out of his hands in 1973. 

On the 20th of February 1976, the property was purchased by Geoffrey Roy Watson (Architect), David Lane Elfick (Film Producer), and Garth David Murphy (Salesman), who were tenants in common in equal shares.

On April 14, 1978, the property ownership changed to only two parties, David Lane Elfick (Film Producer) and Garth David Murphy (Salesman), who were tenants in common in equal shares. The title number is Volume 13611—Folio 95.

David Elfick's Address to the March 2024 ABHS Meeting


David Elfick is an Australian film and television writer, director, producer and occasional actor. He is known for his association with writer-director Phillip Noyce, with whom he has collaborated on films including Newsfront (1978) and Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002).

David has won numerous awards including Australian Film Institute (Best Picture), Berlin Film Festival Crystal Bear (Jury prize), International Catholic Film Critics Award (Best Picture), Australian Writers Guild (Best Screenplay twice), Rio De Janerio Film Festival (Audience prize), Taormina Film Festival (Best Film).

However, it is as the long-term owner of the Palladium art deco building on the Palm Beach beachfront that most of us know him, including being the host of some of the best parties in Palm Beach during the 1980’s, attending films there, and the great work being done there when it became the Palm Beach Studio under his and a group of friends from the mid-1970’s on.  

David Elfick on the Palladium and Palm Beach Studio
Talk given at the March 2024 ABHS Meeting

I first became aware of the building around 1970. I was living in a flat under a house on Barrenjoey road, near the ferry wharf. It was a Saturday morning and I was engaged in idle chitchat with my neighbour Cath H. I asked her what she did last night;

‘We went to the Greek restaurant in the Palladium,’ she answered
‘Any good?’ I enquired
‘Not really,’ she said, ‘the manager shot his wife dead before we got the main course.’

Years passed.

After the murder the building struggled as a nightclub, with a fish and chip shop in the front, lost its licence, closed and began the descent into a derelict building.

With two other friends who needed space to work, we rented the building and worked hard to turn it into a suable creative space. This involved many trips to the tip with such objects as the fish shop vats, still containing congealed fat with a dead cockroach topping.

The building is a unique structure, in the great tradition of the Australian farm shed.

The main room is 11 metres by 13 metres. With a ceiling height of 4 metres, the truss roof is supported by 8 190 centimetre square hardwood columns. It’s a large open room, the feature being a secretly nailed tallow wood dance floor with rubber pads on top of the supporting pylons to give the floor some bounce.

We succeeded in turning the Palladium into a usable space and soon the landlord was hovering, talking about rent increases. So 4 of us decided to buy the property. We went to the bank for a loan but were refused. Back in the 1970’s banks only made property loans to married couples. Then, a gay couple from Mosman were refused a loan to buy a flat, challenged that discriminatory ruling, and were successful. Our loan approved, we owned the Palladium; now we could start renovating.

The first thing to go was the shop awning, which was eaten away with rust and was about to collapse anyway. We hacksawed through the remaining rusted metal supports and it crashed onto the pavement below. 

We removed the fish shop entrance and replaced it with plain glass and a pillar to give the façade a uniform appearance. We added garden beds that matched those near the main entrance. 

Over the next 14 years the building underwent constant changes. The art deco influenced interior windows on either side of the entrance were replicated for interior walls on the eastern side of the dance floor. Fibro sheeting was removed and replaced with opaque Perspex to let more light into the building. At the back we opened the building up and created a courtyard by demolishing the dank laundries that were not part of the building. The corrugated asbestos roof was replaced with a Colourbond one.

The Palm Beach Palladium became the Palm Beach Studio.  From being a public building it became a communal building, a wonderful creative space; it was an Editing Room, we built sets and filmed scenes for movies. In one set, for the film Chain Reaction, the postmistress of a country town is murdered; art imitating life.

We had some great parties, art exhibitions, book launches, weddings, significant birthdays, it was even an animation studio for a few months back in 1975, the animation desks lined up along the front windows.

That Winter the biggest seas I have ever seen at Palm Beach were lashing the beach and the building. The car park, then unsealed, was dotted with the 44-gallon drums that were the garbage tins in that time. The power of the ocean had washed away all the sand from under the art deco toilet block and change rooms of the ‘Pavilion’ building across the road. High tide was approaching; I knelt down so my eye was at the bottom of the full-length glass and could see the waves were above the car park.

A Kombi van pulled into the car park and stopped. The driver checked out the spectacle then drove off. Minutes later a massive set came through. The biggest wave washed across the car park, across Ocean Road and lapped up against the building. The 44-gallon drums were like corks, sluiced 50 metres up Palm Beach Road before they came to rest. That Kombi driver was both foolhardy and lucky. If he had stopped a few minutes later the van and is occupant could have been washed into the raging seas. I called the police and asked them to close Ocean Road.

It’s often a unique experience owning a public building that is no longer public. One Saturday night about 8 of us were sitting around a table having dinner when a very elderly man walked through the door and sat down to join us. He was unaware that the Palladium restaurant had been closed for some years. He said he had driven from Bourke to see his daughter, who lived up in Bynya Road. She wasn’t home. He was hungry so we fed him. After his meal and a cup of tea he left, getting into an ancient Holden covered in red dust with chicken wire across the windscreen to ward off the stones. He really had just driven from Bourke.

On another occasion a staggeringly drunk young woman lurched through the door, announced she was too pissed to drive home and needed a room. We had one spare so we obliged.

The problem with owning a former tea room is that friends and acquaintances continue to drop in unannounced or invited and expect to be refreshed. At the end of a warm Sunday we had had over 30 unexpected visitors. I’d had enough. I took a hammer and chisel and chipped off the art deco ‘Dining Room’ lettering that was on either side of the front door.

This act of vandalism I will forever regret. It may warrant my expulsion from the Historical Society.







The studio was also a storage place for props and costumes left over from my movie productions, a constant source of fascination for our Sunrise Road neighbour Mouche Phillips, who first walked through the back door when she was 4 years old and was a constant visitor for the next decade.

Some of the props and costumes were stored in the roof cavity and Mouche decided to take her girlfriend Joanna Farrelly up there to show her this Aladdin’s Cave of delights. I was out back having a shower when I heard the screams. I jumped out of the shower, gathered a towel around myself with one hand and rushed into the studio. Mouche lay on the floor, dust and props around her, and hanging from a gaping hole in the fibro ceiling was Joanna. Letting go of the towel I rushed underneath her just as she fell, and with my arms and body managed  to break her fall. Joanna emerged unscathed, Mouche sustained a broken arm.

The highlight of those first 14 years was the Palm Beach Film Club. Back in the 1970’s there was no VHS, no DVD and no SBS, so the only way to see foreign films after their limited cinema release was 16mm prints hired to unregistered film clubs. We had a projector and a big roll down screen from my surfing movie days so we cut a hole in the wall, put glass over it for our bio box, and we had a cinema. 

The driving forces behind the film club were Sally Edwards and Sue Watson. They booked the films, which screened once a fortnight, set out the chairs – we had plenty left over from the restaurant days – and provided tea and Arnott’s plain assorted biscuits afterwards. The Entrance fee was $2 which included supper.


From October 10, 1977 edition of Tharunka (Kensington, NSW : 1953 - 2010) 

We screened wonderful films from Scandinavia, France, Germany and Japan.  We always got a crowd, a real cross section of the local community. Everyone stayed on afterwards to have a cuppa and talk about the film we had just seen. I remember after the screening of a great Renoir film, The Rules of the Game, eavesdropping on a conversation between a very wealthy retired stockbroker and a single mother on the dole; both enlivened by the film, its themes, its ideas, its depiction of France in moral decay just prior to World War II. Cinema had brought together two people that would never have met otherwise. It made the effort of the film club worthwhile.

For the first 40 years we had a wonderful tolerant neighbour in Marie Toohey. With her dry wit and astute observations about the cricket, she was always good for an entertaining chat. Despite the nose and the madness which sometimes came from the studio we only had two disagreements. 

The studio is a cold building in Winter so we decided to build a stone fireplace along the north wall of the main room. Our first fire was a roaring blaze that did take the edge off the chill but unfortunately the smoke from the chimney was blown straight into Marie’s kitchen window.  We never lit the fireplace again.

The building was painted white and was looking a bit shabby so the time had come to spruce it up. Marie’s house was pink and it looked a pretty good colour, especially at sunrise, so we painted the studio the same colour. Marie was furious; I was informed in no uncertain manner that good neighbours never painted their houses the same colour, a neighbourly protocol I was unaware of. After chewing me out she went home and rang her painter, who turned up the next day and painted her house a different colour.

Marie was always invited to our various events; she liked to run the bar as a way of introducing herself to our guests. No one ever went thirsty; being a Toohey, she ran a bar brilliantly.
Over the first 14 years the other owners changed and then in 1988 I had a new partner in the building; an esteemed English film producer who was a very close friend. This meant the Studio entered into another phase as his friends and colleagues, Actors, Directors, Designers, Writers and Producers, came to stay in the building and sample the pristine waters of Palm Beach. I made an interesting observation; the Americans, especially the ones from Los Angeles, fretted over the lack of security and air-conditioning, while the English loved the beach vibe, especially the outdoor shower.

The building has a ghost; a woman ghost. I’m not sure whether she is from earlier times or is the ghost of the murdered managers’ wife. There have been various sightings of her, none of them unpleasant, but I thought it best not to mention her presence.

The wonderful English actor Jeremey Irons came to stay with his talented Irish wife, Sinead Cusac, who was appearing in an Australian film. 

After their first night I enquired if they had slept well. They both did, and Sinead mentioned, almost as though it was a bonus to the good night’s sleep had within earshot of the lapping surf, that she saw a ghost whom she found to be very pleasant. Irish Sinead was not troubled in the least by a ghostly presence. 

Julian Schnabel, the American Painter and Film Director, loved the place and was unfazed by the ghost, lack of air-conditioning and security. He’s a surfer from Texas now resident in New York. Julian and his Swedish girlfriend Louise cut quite a figure in Palm Beach. They dined most evenings at Barrenjoey House in cream silk pyjamas; the only attire they wore after sunset.

Julian is a man of strong opinions and didn’t like our art collection of local artists Tony Edwards, Bruce Goold and Rodney Black, as well as our Marin Shapes, so Julian turned them al over so they faced the walls, but liked a painting by Artist and Palm Beach Store owner Wayne Magrin so much he bought 10 of his paintings.

Julian then began work on his paintings, commencing by stapling 3 large canvases along the wall of the back verandah. The canvases were old and had paint, grime and patches on them. They had been used to cover stalls in a Mexican market. They appealed to Julian; the patina of experience engrained into their weave would underpin paintings he created. The Mexican vendors were no doubt delighted, if somewhat astonished when he purchased their stall covers.

I believe that the history of the building is embedded in the dance floor, just like those Mexican canvasses now covered with Julian’s ideas. It is a building that has delivered enjoyment to many many people. That’s why kids love the building; they feel the positive vibrations of this rusting tin structure that has endured for almost 100 years.

The Royal Shakespeare Company were touring Australia. They came up to spend a few days at the studio. By day they frolicked in the ocean and got sunburnt as only the English can. At night they sat around in the main room and played charades. It seems hat some Actors never stop acting. Diana Quick was their leading lady; she’d been on the road for some time and missed her home so offered to help me with the gardening. As we gardened away together she told me about her career. In 1981 the British tv series Brideshead Revisited, which she starred in with Jeremy Irons, had taken America by storm. Being flavour of the month, Diana was off to Hollywood, a beautiful young actress on the cusp of international stardom, then something happens which changes her life. The night before leaving she was hurrying down Oxford Street in London when she tripped and smashed her face on the gutter, breaking her nose and teeth. It took more than a year of operations and therapy before she could speak properly again.

My tripping on the gutter moment came late last year when the new owner of Marie Toohey’s house next door put in a Development Application to demolish the house, turn the block of land into a quarry, as is the current building fashion in Palm Beach, and in that quarry construct a very large 4-storey building which for zoning purposes is called a home. Such an undertaking, if it goes ahead unchanged, will cast a shadow both physically and metaphorically over the studio. One can only hope that something more considerate and reasonable will eventuate.

Some things happen that can really change your life.

Well, as you have probably reached the anecdote saturation point, I will conclude by thanking Geoff Searl and the Avalon Beach Historical Society for this opportunity to speak about the Palladium, and the Palm Beach studio that has been such a rewarding part of my life for the last 50 years.

Thank you. 


Guest Speaker David Elfick (centre) with Geoff Searl OAM, President of ABHS (left) and William Goddard (right).

References - Extras - notes

  1. John Thomas Pike - Deceased Estates Index 1880-1958. Item No: B31485 [20/4772] | Place: Strathfield | Remarks: Occupation: Retired Contractor
  2. PIKE William E - Deceased Estates Index 1880-1958 Item No: [19/10248] | Reel No: 3032 | Date Duty Paid: 06/12/1917 | Place: France and Strathfield 
  3. Johanna Maria Pike - Date of Death 07/04/1926, Place of residence Strathfield NSW
  4. L. T. Carron, 'Swain, Edward Harold (1883–1970)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/swain-edward-harold-8723/text15273, published first in hardcopy 1990,
  5. Heather Radi, 'Swain, Edith Muriel Maitland (1880–1964)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/swain-edith-muriel-maitland-11808/text21127, published first in hardcopy 2002
  6. TROVE - National Library of Australia
  7. Art Deco Inspirations In Palm Beach: The Palladium Dance-Hall, Cafe and Shop - The Surf Pavilion - The Beacon Store
  8. Pittwater Summer Houses: The Cabin, Palm Beach - The Pink House Of The Craig Family
  9. Barrenjoey Lighthouse - The Construction
  10. Light Keepers of Barrenjoey Lightstation
  11. Broken Bay Customs Station At Barrenjoey: 2023 Reprise 
  12. Iluka Park, Woorak Park, Pittwater Park, Sand Point Reserve, Snapperman Beach Reserve - Palm Beach: Some History
  13. Pittwater Roads II: Where The Streets Have Your Name - Palm Beach
  14. Florida House Palm Beach: Some History
  15. The First Weekenders On The Palm Beach Beachfront + A Look Into Palm Beach SLSC Clubhouses In The Club's 101st Season
  16. Pittwater Summer Houses: Kalua, Palm Beach
  17. Pittwater Restaurants You Could Stay At Jonah's Road House – Whale Beach
  18. Pittwater Restaurants You Could Stay At Barrenjoey House – Palm Beach: 100 Years Young In 2022 - celebratory reprise
  19. Wilfrid Kingsford-Smith: 12th Of March, 1882 -  January 13, 1960 - aviators round of 4 for Avalon Tattoo precursors, 2012
  20. 'Little Mountain' Bayview - The Modernistic Art Deco House William Watson Sharp Built For Kenneth Gordon Murray During The Rise Of The K G Publishing Empire
  21. Early Pittwater Surfers: Palm Beach I  - Alrema Becke: Queen of Palm Beach
  22. Early Pittwater Surfers: Palm Beach I  - John Ralston and Nora McAuliffe
  23. Palm Beach Pavilion To Be Renamed The Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Marks DSO, MC Pavilion 
  24. Harry Wolstenholme; June 21, 1868 - October 14, 1930, Ornithologist Of Palm Beach, Bird Man Of Wahroonga
  25. The NSW Women's Legal Status Bill 1918: How The 'Petticoat Interference In Government' Came Of Age - A 100 Years Celebration Of Women Alike Our Own Maybanke Selfe-Wolstenholme-Anderson
  26. Ray Henman ACS - Profile
  27. Whale Beach Ocean Reserve: 'The Strand' - Some History On Another Great Protected Pittwater Reserve
  28. Palm Beach Golf Course 1924 To 2024: Some 100th Year History Celebratory Insights
  29. Barrenjoey Artists' Commune In The Lighthouse Cottages: Post WWII Social Infrastructure Investment Enriched Australia's Cultural Evolution
  30. The Advent Of The Surfoplane Phenomenon On Our Beaches Led To An Increase In Lifesavers Responses, A Fatality, Along With Lives Being Saved (John ‘Johnny’ Morgan Hawkes who had the Beach Buffet atop old surfboat shed alongside Pavilion notes)
Raine and Horne Ltd at their indoor auction sale next Thursday will submit the following:
Palm Beach Tigh-Na-Mara Ocean road modern bungalow close to beach with five rooms garage etc with or without furniture 
Richard Stanton and Sons, Ltd., report that at their next auction sale, to be held in their rooms, Stanton House, 133 Pitt-street, Sydney. next Tuesday, October 18, the following properties will be offered:
Palm Beach, furnished cottage, five rooms, etc known as Miami, Florida-road, REAL ESTATE. (1934, October 13). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 8. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17141623

SURFING enthusiast at Palm Beach these days is the Hon. W. M. Hughes, who is staying at Tigh-Na-Mara . . . he goes for his dip in the early mornings and again in the afternoons. At the same address are Joy Minnett, Betty Oxenham, and Gwenda Ashcroft. ROUND THE TOWN. (1940, January 5). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 4. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29889262



Tigh-Na-Mara. Enlarged sections from EB Studios (Sydney, N.S.W.). (circa 1917-1924). Panorama of Palm Beach, New South Wales, 7 Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-162484891

Under 'new management'.


Advertising (1947, January 8). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 17. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27904234

NEWEST and smartest playground for the social set is Bob Stephen's Palm Beach Country Club on Ocean Road . . . you may remember the hostelry as former guest house Tigh-Na-Mara. Look Who's Here (1948, October 28). The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), p. 15 (LATE FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article231146714

A few more Palladium pictures from 2019 

taken by A J Guesdon/PON

A few Interiors of the Palladium, taken April 2026

Photos by A J Guesdon/PON

The 'Board Room' in the Palladium:

Main room - some may recall this fitted with desk during 1980s parties:

Every nook and cranny has iconic Australian art and works - Martine Sharp for instance:

co-owner of the Palladium, Jeremy Thomas's Buddha for 'Little Buddha' (1993):

David Elfick, at home in Palm Beach for almost 60 years

The Palladium Palm Beach (1930 to 1974) + Palm Beach Studio (1976 to 2026) by Geoff Searl OAM, David Elfick, William J Goddard, and A J Guesdon, 2024-2026

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J. (Arthur James) Vogan, 1859-1948  Roads To Pittwater: The Wakehurst Parkway Along Old Oxford Falls Track  Roads To Pittwater: The Pittwater Road  My Holiday by Charles de Boos – 1861  Shark-proof pools at Manly on the Harbourside  Dad's Fishing Shack At Long Reef  Historic Photographers Of Pittwater: Harold 'Caz' Cazneaux 1878 - 1953 Roads To Pittwater: The Mona Vale Road  My Singing Story Barrenjoey High School's 50th Year: History Notes + The Original Barrenjoey School  A Bunch Of Wildflowers: Historical Spring September Songs  Camden-Campbelltown Hospitals & Carrington Convalescent Hospital: A Mona Vale-Frenchs' Forest Hospitals Comparison With Pittwater History Links The Newport School: 1888 to 2018  A Visit to Bungan Castle by ABHS   Roads In Pittwater: The Barrenjoey Road Remembrance Day 2018 - Pittwater Veterans WWI 100 Years From Armistice Day 1918   Filmed in Pittwater: A Sentimental Reprise + Narrabeen  Roads In Pittwater: The Bay View Road  The NSW Women's Legal Status Bill 1918: How The 'Petticoat Interference In Government' Came Of Age - A 100 Years Celebration Of Women Alike Our Own Maybanke Selfe-Wolstenholme-Anderson Scott Brewster Dillon: A Tribute - He Did It His Way  Pittwater Summer Houses: Rocky Point and Elvina Bay -  A Place Of  Holiday Songs and Operas In Ventnor, Fairhaven, Trincomalee and Maritana    Remains Of Captain Matthew Flinders Discovered: Links with Bungaree of Broken Bay   Isabella Jessie Wye MBE OAM (Isa)  Off To School In 2019 Quicker Than 104 Years Ago  Photographers Of Early Pittwater: Charles Bayliss  Harold Nossiter's Classic Yachts  Pittwater Roads II: Where the Streets Have Your name - Scotland Island  Art Deco Inspirations In Palm Beach: The Palladium Dance-Hall, Cafe And Shop - The Surf Pavilion - The Beacon Store  Pittwater Roads II: Where the Streets Have Your Name - Newport Beach  Professor Christopher John Brennan: A Poet Of Newport Beach  M.V. Reliance Turns 100  Avalon Beach Historical Society March 2019 Meeting: Focus On Trappers Way   Pittwater Roads II: Where the Streets Have Your name - Clareville  Photographers of Early Pittwater: Henry King  Photographers Of Early Pittwater: David 'Rex' Hazlewood  Richard Hayes Harnett - First Commodore Of The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club and Designer Of The Yacht 'Australian' - Based On The Lines Of A Mackerel  Pittwater Summer Houses: Waiwera and Hopton Lodge, Bayview The Sirius Circumnavigation (1935-1937): Nossiter Trio Make Australian Sailing History  Pittwater Roads II: Where the Streets Have Your name - Avalon Beach  Were Manly's Statues, Smashed For Road Ballast, Sculpted By Achille Simonetti?   Pittwater Roads II: Where the Streets Have Your name - Warriewood  Avalon Beach Historical Society June 2019 Meeting  Flint and Steel Guesthouse    Pittwater Roads II: Where The Streets Have Your Name - 'Green Hills', Elanora Heights, and Ingleside  Ethel Turner's Seven Little Australians Added To UNESCO Memory Of The World Register - The Missing Pages Restored  RPAYC To Host 100th Year Of The Scandinavian Gold Cup and 5.5m Worlds In January 2020 - some Etchells Worlds and Gold Cup on Pittwater History    Pittwater Roads II - Where the Streets Have Your Name: Mona Vale  Pittwater Roads II - Where the Streets Have Your Name - Bungan  Shark Meshing 2018/19 Performance Report + Historical Pittwater Shark Notes  Anthony Thomas Ruskin Rowe, Spitfire Pilot (1919 To 1943) - Who Defended Darwin And His Mate: An Avalon Beach And Pittwater Hero  Newport Surf Club Celebrates 110 Years On October 19, 2019 - A Few Club Firsts  Pittwater Roads II - Where the Streets Have Your Name - Bilgola  Tram Memorabilia - Historic Daylight Run For Sydney Light Rail Begins 80 Years After Last Tram To Narrabeen Closed  Historic Insights From The Australian National Maritime Museums 1890 Pitt Water 'Era' Yacht Collection: The Basin Regattas   Pittwater Roads II - Where the Streets Have Your Name - Coaster's Retreat and The Basin Samuel Wood Postcards of Pittwater and Manly  Bilgola SLSC Celebrates 70 Years: Anecdotes from Early Members  Pittwater Roads II - Where the Streets Have Your Name - Great Mackerel Beach  G . E. Archer Russell (1881-1960) and His Passion For Avifauna From Narrabeen To Newport  A History Of The Campaign For Preservation Of The Warriewood Escarpment by Angus Gordon and David Palmer  Mark Foy of Bayview 2019 Inductee into Australian Sailing Hall of Fame  The Victa Lawnmowers Story With A Careel Bay Link  Plaque Unveiled To Mark Phenomenal Surfing Revolution Commencement: the 1956  Carnival at Avalon Beach That Introduced The Malibu Surfboard  The Other Angels From Avalon: 50th Anniversary Of The IRB Marks The Saving Of Over 100 Thousand Lives The Eos: Classic Pittwater Yachts  Pittwater Roads II: Where The Streets Have Your Name - Whale Beach  Palm Beach Pavilion To Be Renamed The Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Marks DSO, MC Pavilion - some historical insights  Daniel Gordon Soutar's Influence On Local Golf Courses: Some History Notes Pittwater Fire Boats History: January 2020 Tribute Palm Beach Pavilion Renaming Dedication Honours Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Marks DSO, MC  Ella McFadyen's Love Of Pittwater: An Environment, Wildlife and Children's Champion Ella McFadyen's Love Of Pittwater: A Children's Champion - shorter version for Children  Sydney Bus Museum Volunteers Helps Mona Vale Bus Depot Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of Opening Dorothy Hawkins - a new film by John Illingsworth  Dorothy Hawkins' family, father Joseph  Homer, ran a dairy near Winnererremy Bay at Mona Vale from 1936 Narrabeen Fire Brigade Celebrates 100th Anniversary + A Few Extra Insights Into Local Fires And Brigade Formations  Pittwater, Narrabeen Lagoon & The Collaroy Beachfront: Some Storms and Flood Tides Of The Past - With Pictures  The Wolverene At Broken Bay In 1885   Jack 'Bluey' Mercer (January 2nd, 1923 - February 17th, 2020) - West Head Battery in WWII  Manly Children's Festival Federation Of A Commonwealth Medals Of 1901  Maybanke Selfe-Wolstenholme-Anderson: 2020 International Womens Day + Pittwater Online 10 Years Celebrations  The Bona - Classic Wooden Yacht 2020 Answers North Head Quarantine Station, Manly: Some History - Governor Ralph Darling Saved Australians, Saved Australia  Winnererremy Bay: Angus Gordon, the Sequel to Dorothy Hawkins by John Illingsworth Roderic Quinns Poems and Prose For Manly, Beacon Hill, Dee Why And Narrabeen - 10 Year Celebrations and all Manly-Pittwater Poets Series in One Place  Stargazing In Pittwater: Historic and Contemporary   The Naval Pioneers of Australia by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffrey 1899  Harold Tristram Squire: October 28, 1868 - May 16,1938; Artist of Mona Vale  All Is Quiet On The Western Front by Roger Sayers Pittwater Roads II: Where The Streets Have Your Name - Palm Beach   Large Sunfish Caught at Barranjuee in 1875  Grace Brook, 1921-2017 by Paul McGrath and Robin Bayes  The Pittwater Floating Hotels That Almost Were: Old Paddle Steamers, Fairmiles  + A Current 'Lilypad'  Pittwater's Ocean Beach Rock Pools: Southern Corners Of Bliss - A History: Updated 2020  Long Reef Aquatic Reserve Celebrates 40th Anniversary   Pittwater Roads II: Where The Streets Have Your Name - Careel Bay   Careel Bay Reserves and Playing Fields in Careel Bay Playing Fields Reserve - Including Hitchcock Park: Birds, Boots & Beauty  North Narrabeen Rock Pool: Some History Narrabeen Lakes Amateur Swimming Club by Maureen Rutlidge, Life Member  Avalon Beach North Headland: An Ever-Changing Coastline - Storm Swell Of July 2020  Anthony Thomas Ruskin Rowe, Spitfire Pilot (1919 To 1943) - 75th VP Day Tributes 2020  Walter ('Wal') Williams - VP Day 75th Tributes 2020 Gwenyth Sneesby (nee Forster) 75th VP Day Tributes 2020  Pittwater's Midget Submarine M24 War Grave Renews Memories Of 75 Years Ago   Avalon Beach and Surrounds in 1968 and 1970 - Photos Taken By Gary Clist  Muriel Knox Doherty of Avalon Beach VP Day 2020 75th Anniversary Tributes   Dundundra Falls Reserve: August 2020 photos by Selena Griffith - Listed in 1935  Binishells In Pittwater Schools Bairne Walking Track, Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park (Trig Stations) photos by Kevin Murray  Pittwater Roads II: Where the Streets Have Your Name - Bayview  Perons' Tree Frog At Careel Bay - who is 'Peron'?  Pittwater Roads II: Where The Streets Have Your Name - Church Point  Stapleton Park Reserve In Spring 2020: An Urban Ark Of Plants Found Nowhere Else Sydney's ACA Building Revitalisation Project Complete: Grand Old Building Has Links To Architects Of St. Patrick's College Manly - Some History Notes  Harry Wolstenholme (June 21, 1868 - October 14, 1930) Ornithologist Of Palm Beach, Bird Man Of Wahroonga   Three Ferries Named Narrabeen (1883 To 1984) + One Named Barranjoey (1913-1985)  Rockley was Cricket for Girls 130 Years Ago - and this Team Visited Narrabeen as well  The Bus To Palm Beach: Some History  Surf Boats Season Kicks Off At Newport November 14; A Whole Range Of Local Sydney Northern Beaches Branch Carnivals Set To Roll Out Over The 2020-2021 Season + Some History Newport to Bilgola Bushlink 'From The Crown To The Sea' Paths:  Founded In 1956 - A Tip and Quarry Becomes Green Space For People and Wildlife Welcome To Country: Neil Evers – NAIDOC Week 2020  Marine Rescue Broken Bay Naming Ceremony for the new BB30 - The Michael Seale   Marine Rescue Broken Bay Unit's Beginnings In The Volunteer Coastal Patrol: Some RMYC BB Connections  Stokes Point To Taylor's Point: An Ideal Picnic, Camping & Bathing Place   Boy Scouts - The Pre-Nippers Life Savers: Some Notes On Local Troops From 1909  Pittwater Roads II: Where the Streets Have Your Name - Narrabeen  Warriewood Historic Farmhouse 'Oaklands' by Krisitin Zindel  John Illingsworth's Local History; 'The Water Dwellers' 1967, Enemark panoramas of Palm and Whale Beach 1917, 'Paper Run' 1956, John Illingsworth 1921 - 2012: 'A Newport Story  Pittwater Summer Houses: 'Cooinoo', Bungan Beach  Narrabeen Lagoon Catchment: Worth Looking After Past Notes and Current Photos  Pittwater Summer Houses: Ocean Beach House - The Combers, Newport Beach  Pittwater Aviatrixes On The Eve Of The RAAF's 100th: A NSW Women's Week - Women Of Aviation Week Celebration  Florence Mary Taylor   Doreen Mavis 'Bobby' Squire  2021 Tribute   Avalon Beach Reserve Heritage Marker For Old Kiosk Installed  Landing In Pittwater: That Beach-Estuary-Lagoon Looks Like A Great Place To Touchdown! Hawkesbury River: 1 In 100 Years Floods - What Washed Up On Pittwater Beaches   The Australian Air League Camps At Mona Vale Beach In The Old La Corniche Building + The Robey Family Of Manly; 'Always Looking Out For Younger People'  The Story Of Pittwater's Anti-Submarine Boom Net by John Illingsworth, Pittwater Pathways  Avalon's Village Green: Avalon Park Becomes Dunbar Park - Some History + Toongari Reserve and Catalpa Reserve Unseen Footage Of Nellie Melba To Celebrate Her 160th Birthday: The Day Dame Nellie Melba Lunched At Bilgola Cottage  Narrabeen Cenotaph + RSL History: 100 and 65 Years Markers Of Service In 2021  Avalon Beach Public School: Some History For A 70th Birthday  Bungan Head 'Bridge' and Tank Trap During WWII - by Malcolm Tompson  Currawong’s 10th Anniversary Funding: The Investment In Local Heritage Continues  The Wakehurst Parkway: 75th Anniversary Of Gazettal As A Main Road In 2021   Pittwater's Tropical Fruits: From The Middle Of Winter  Turimetta Beach Reserve: Old & New Images + Some History  National Fitness Centres At Broken Bay, Mona Vale, Narrabeen: Local History Shows We Like To Move It! Move It!  Nautical Words and Phrases Transposed Into Other Uses: Can You Fathom That?!  Mona Vale Cemetery: Some History  Narrabeen Lagoon and Collaroy Beachfront: Storms and Flood Tides Of The Past + Collaroy Beach Reserve Gazettal  The Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge: 75 Years old in 2021 + the Beluba Dam and Oscar Schulze  The Clareville/Long Beach Reserve: some History John William Pilbeam Goffage MBE ''Chips Rafferty'' Of Lovett Bay: Victory In The Pacific Day 2021  The Fern Creek - Ingleside Escarpment To Warriewood Walk + Some History  The Cowan ‘Creek’ + Lovett Bay Heights Tracks: Some Notes From The Pages Of The Past With Early Photos Trafalgar Square, Newport: A 'Commons' Park Dedicated By Private Landholders - The Green Heart Of This Community  The  Rock Lily Hotel Mona Vale - A Place and Hotel Named for a Local Flower  Whale Beach Ocean Reserve: 'The Strand' - Some History On Another Great Protected Pittwater Reserve  How Camping and Campers At Whale Beach Helped The Whale Beach SLSC Save Lives  Camping at Palm Beach  The Baird Family Of Mona Vale - The Wentworths Of Newport  The Rise Of The Surfboard As Life Saving Rescue Equipment: Some History  Opening Narrabeen Lagoon: Keeping The Community Safer For Over 100 Years  Ellis Rowan's Adventures In Painting Birds, Flowers and Insects: 'This Meant That I Was Tapu - Sacred - Because I Painted The Birds'  History Of The Modern Surfboat: Recognising The Surfboat Builders From 1950 To 2021 by Bert Hunt  The Bus To Palm Beach: Some History with Extras  The Landscapes Of Pittwater As Shown Through The Colonial Wandering Sketcher Artist  Remembrance Day 2021: Mona Vale's Hales-Smith Haynes Smith, Holding, Brentnall And Roby - A.I.F. Men Of World War One who died on the Fields of France  Pittwater Summer Houses: Gunjulla, Avalon Beach-Clareville by Helen and Deborah Grant  St. John's Anglican Church Mona Vale- Celebrating Its 150th Year In 2021   Original Sales Pamphlets Of Scotland Island, Mona Vale, Great Mackerel Beach, Bungan, Offer Images Into Our Past – A Pittwater Summer Idyll  Off To School In 2022 A Bit Quicker Than A Hundred Years Ago  Australia's First Tour Of England Cricket Team Was Indigenous: The Summer They Played At Manly - 1867  Narrabeen Lagoon Bridge No 1 History Notes  The History Films Of John Illingsworth: New Work 'The Newport Boys' + Past Features From Pittwater Pathways  Pittwater Regatta 2022 - Hosted By The RPAYC - Celebrates Over 130 Years Of Regattas On Our Estuary and Offshore Reaches  Lucinda Park, Palm Beach: Some History + 2022 Pictures   Barrenjoey House Celebrates its Centenary in 2022  Barrenjoey Boathouse In Governor Phillip Park  Part Of Our Community For 75 Years: Photos From The Collection Of Russell Walton, Son Of Victor Walton  Iluka Park, Woorak Park, Pittwater Park, Sand Point Reserve, Snapperman Beach Reserve - Palm Beach: Some History   Wreck Of Shackleton's Endurance Found: First Images After Frank Hurley's Last Photos Of This Ship Published   Pittwater's Torpedo Wharf - Bill Fitzgerald 2022  Avalon Beach 100 - Ray Henman's 100 Years Centenary Film  Of The Family Of Arthur Jabez Small Talk On Their Grandfather + Extra A J Small Notes; Reserves, A Golf Course, A Surf Club  Dorothy Wilga Hawkins Tribute: 1921 - 2022  Barrenjoey Artists Commune In The Lighthouse Cottages: Post WWII Social Infrastructure Investment Enriched Australia's Cultural Evolution  Brookvale Oval Marks 111 Years As A Community Space With The Opening Of A New Stand and Performance Centre - Some Current + Older History  Avalon Beach Sand Dunes: Some History  Duck Holes: McCarrs Creek  The Sly Family Of Manly and Narrabeen + The First Surfboat At Manly   Mona Vale War Memorials: A School Honour Board, A Victory Tree, A Cenotaph  The Petrov Safe Houses In Pittwater   Warriewood Surf Life Saving Club Celebrates 70 Years  Dorothea Mackellar Of Lovett Bay - The Poet From Whom The Electorate Received Its Name  Wilshire Park Palm Beach: Some History + Photos From May 2022   Narrabeen Hotel: Some History About The Licensees  America Bay Track Walk: Some History + photos by Joe Mills  Mona Vale SLSC: The Clubhouses - Some History  Avalon Beach Village Shops: Some History  100 Years Of Girl Guides In Manly + Some History Of Local Units  Snow Season 2022: Some Local History Connections With The Sport Of Skiing Beginnings  A Glimpse Of The Hawkesbury in 1883 - the Art of John Clark Hoyte   Pittwater Pathways A History Of Pittwater Films Remastered Be The Boss: I Want To Be A Ship's Captain - Princes Albert and George August 1881 Visit to Pittwater + Coast Waiters in Pittwater History  The 1957 Girl Guides Centenary World Camp At Windsor: A 65th Anniversary Celebration Grand Old Tree Of Angophora Reserve Falls Back To The Earth  Topham Track History insights     Brock's The Oaks - La Corniche From 1911 to 1965: Rickards, A Coffee King, A Progressive School, A WWII Training Ground  The Sirius Circumnavigation: Nossiter Trio Make Australian Sailing History - Sirius Now Needs A Saviour  Bungaree was Flamboyant by Neil Evers - Commissioning of MRBB 'Bungaree' special celebration  Stony Range Regional Botanical Garden: Some History On How A Reserve Became An Australian Plant Park  Mona Vale Library Celebrates 50 Years As A Community Hub  Mona Vale SLSC's Frederick Claude Vivian Lane Inducted Into Swimming Australia Hall Of Fame - A Few Insights Into A Local Legend  Newport Hotel Wharf Named For Queen Victoria   Bill Goddard Shares Family Insights  Avalon Beach in 1970-71 - more great photos shared by Gary Clist  Freddie Lane's granddaughter Visits Pittwater on Eve of Mona Vale SLSC's Centenary Celebrations  Harry Wolstenholme - Bird Man of Palm Beach  Duke Kahanamoku Celebrated In Our Area's First Blue Plaque At Freshwater SLSC   The Advent Of The Surfoplane Phenomenon On Our Beaches Led To An Increase In Lifesavers Responses, A Fatality, Along With Lives Being Saved  Gerald Joseph McPhee - A World War II 'M' Special Unit Member: Remembrance Day 2022  Goldthorpe & Smith Boatshed Becomes Port Jackson & Manly Steamship's Palm Beach Marine Service: Palm Beach Boatsheds  Avalon Recreation Centre History: 1954 to 2002  Wings Over Illawarra 2022: Some Brilliant New + Old Machines + Some History Of Pittwater's 'Aces'  Margaret Mulvey (Lady Schlink) of Careel Bay 1916 - 2001  St Michael's Cave - North Avalon Headland: Some History  Pittwater Summer Houses: The Cabin, Palm Beach - The Pink House Of The Craig Family (extra images added in)  Barrenjoey Lighthouse - The Construction: 2023 Reprise  The First Weekenders On The Palm Beach Beachfront + A Look Into Palm Beach SLSC Clubhouses In The Club's 101st Season  Broken Bay Customs Station At Barrenjoey: 2023 Reprise  Getting To School By Ferry - Australia's First 'School Boat' Ran In Pittwater - Some History  Hy-Brasil, Avalon Beach: An Alexander Stewart Jolly Hand-Built Home  Back To School 2023: Getting To School By Ferry - Australia's First 'School Boat' Ran In Pittwater - Some History  Pittwater Summer Houses: 'Billabong' + 'Ocean House', Ocean Street, North Narrabeen - The House At The End Of The Road - Became Site Of North Narrabeen SLSC's 'Batchelor Club   Country Women's Association Manly Branch Celebrates Its 100th Year - 1923 To 2023: Some History  A Community Memorial Hall For Mona Vale - A 22 Year Odyssey That Culminated In Victory: November 1944 To November 1966  New Marine Rescue Broken Bay Base Commissioned: A Building Designed To Look Like A Boat To Honour Its Purpose - The Work Of Marine Rescue Volunteers  Jack ‘Johnny’ Carter's Ashes Returned To His Palm Beach Home  Vale Sydney Fischer AM OBE   Early Mona Vale Constable Owned Mona Vale Hotel Site: Some History  The Mail Route To Pittwater + Establishment Of Local Post Offices: Some History   Narrabeen Prawning Times - A Seasonal Tide Of Returnings: New Found Records Added In  Mona Vale Woolworths Front Entrance Gets Garden Upgrade: A Few Notes On The Site's History  Angophora Costata Named Eucalypt Of The Year: The Tree One Of Our Local Reserves Is Named For - A Celebration    Avalon Beach Norfolk Pines: To Honour Those Who Served – Anzac Day 2023 History Precursors   Lewis George Pimblett - Inventor Of Harbord + Mona Vale: Toymaker Of 'Pim's Toys' + First Speaking Robot Maker Of 1952   W. G. Taylor Memorial Home At Narrabeen: Some History (Wesley Taylor home for the aged)  The Mona Vale-Bungan Beach-Bayview Tank Traps: Coastal Defences Of Pittwater During World War Two - Some History  'Little Mountain' Bayview - The Modernistic Art Deco House William Watson Sharp Built For Kenneth Gordon Murray During The Rise Of The K G Publishing Empire  The First Boat Builders Of Pittwater: The Short Life and Long Voyages Of Scotland Island Schooner The Geordy  Historic Heritage Listed Bantry Bay Explosives Depot At Middle Harbor Falling Into Disrepair From Long Neglect  Early Pittwater Surfers: Alrema Becke, Queen Of Palm Beach  Lucy Edith Gullett (Dr.) 28 September 1876 - 12 November 1949   The Mona Vale Outrages by George Champion OAM  Sarah A. Biddy Lewis and Martha Catherine Benns: Midwives of Broken Bay and Pittwater - Reconciliation Week 2023 History  Pittwater's Tropical Fruits: The Estuarine Farmlets At Mona Vale-Newport That Kept Sydney Stocked With Hot Area Fruit In The Middle Of Winter Vivid Sydney 2023: World First Installation In Wynyard Tunnels Raises Spectre Of Long-Forgotten Train To Narrabeen Or Manly  State Government Announces The Return Of The Freshwater Class Ferries To Manly Route - Three Ferries Named 'Narrabeen' + One Named Barranjoey: Some Historic Manly Ferry Songs  Bilgola Beach - The Cabbage Tree Gardens & Camping Grounds + Bilgola The Story Of A Politician, A Pilot And An Epicure by Tony Dawson and Anne Spencer  Avalon Beach Historical Society's June 2023 Meeting: Avalon Golf Links   Snow Season 2023: Some Local History Connections With The Sport Of Skiing Beginnings - The Founders Kerry, Hunter, Schlink  The Cowan ‘Creek’ + Lovett Bay Heights Tracks: Some Notes From The Pages Of The Past With Early Photos  Narrabeen JRLFC's 90th Celebratory History A Shark’s Tale Book Launch Featured A Legends Q&A With Alan Thompson, Anthony Watmough, Mark Gerrard, Anthony Balkin  Mona Vale Road  George Mulhall First Light-Keeper At Barranjuey Headland - Commenced July 20 1868 - First Champion Of Australia In Rowing  Royal Avalon Golf Links: Geoff Searl OAM's Presentation - Film By Pittwater Pathways (John Illingsworth)  Church Point, Pittwater: Winter 2023 + Some Photos and Snippets From The Past  The Tasmanian Countess and Marquise of Scotland Island  Pittwater's Fire-Boats: Some History   Stokes Point Careel Bay: The Shift From Warner's Hut In 1813 To Finisterre In 1924; 1934 Additions Probably Designed By Australia's First Women Architect, Beatrice (Bea) May Hutton - A Pittwater Rendezvous Site For Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron Members Is Still A Home With A View For Those With A Passion For Sailing Vietnam Veterans Day (Northern) 50th End Of The War March At Palm Beach - All Welcome, All Belong Anniversary      Avalon Beach RSL Sub Branch Celebrates 75 Years Of Members Looking After Each Other Vietnam Veterans Day Services 2023 - 50th Anniversary Of The End Of The Vietnam War: Collaroy, Narrabeen, Palm Beach   The Myra + Merinda II: Pittwater Ferries Of The Palm Beach Ferry Service (Commenced 1976)- A Few Other Verrills Ferries Of The 1980'S To Early 2000'S + Palm Beach Boatshed Insights  The Bayview Tea Gardens - When Run By Thomas Edward and Annie Newey (Nee Costello)  A Bunch Of Wildflowers: Historical Spring September Songs  The Wakehurst Parkway: 75th Anniversary Of Gazettal As A Main Road On May 29th 2021 - the Long and Winding Road   'Longa Linga' At Church Point - The John Lander Browne Pre-WWII Designed Linear Home For An Aunt  Dee Why Hotel Opens In 1930: Introduces 'Beer o'clock' For Thirsty Locals   Avalon Community Library Celebrates 40th Anniversary  Narrabeen Folk Arts Club In The Shack: Some History As We Head Into The 2023 Northern Beaches Music Festival Utzon's Pittwater: A Place Of Peace For A Plain Sailing Man - A Quieter Sydney Opera House 50th Birthday Celebration   Australian + English Women’s Cricket Teams Picnic In Pittwater- The 1934-35 First Women's Test Tour That Healed The Bodyline Rift     Barrenjoey High School Inaugural Students: 1968 To 1973 - 50 year celebration of Inaugural graduating class  Waiwera - Hopton Lodge, Bayview  Pittwater's Ocean Beach Rock Pools: Southern Corners Of Bliss + One Northern End Of Beach Rock Pool At Narrabeen: Some History  Pittwater High School Alumni 1963 To 1973 Reunion For 2023: A Historic 60 Years Celebration + Some History  Avalon Beach Historical Society: December 2023 Meeting Slide Night Featuring The Original Avalon Beach Community Library, The Avalon Stomp, The Hail Storm Of 1956 The Black Swamp Camping Reserve Becomes Kitchener Park, Beeby Park & Mona Vale Golf Course - Pittwater Creeks series opener     The Australia Day Regatta Began As an Anniversary Day Regatta  Back To School In 2024 Inspires A Look Back At  A Pittwater Public School Set On The Estuary  Barrenjoey Boatshed In Governor Phillip Park Has Been Part Of Our Community For 77 Years: A Few Photos From The Collection Of Russell Walton, Son Of Victor Walton, Pilot + A Few Insights Into This Evolving Station Beach Institution     Pittwater Summer Houses: Kalua, Palm Beach  Station Beach, Barrenjoey, Circa 1879  Section Of A Squire Mural From Dungarvon, Mona Vale, Held In Private Collection + A Few Notes About His Focus On In Situ Aboriginal Sculptures & Local Burial Grounds Of First Nations Peoples  Historic 100-Year-Old Mona Vale WWI 'Victory' Tree To Be Replaced   Palm Beach Golf Course 1924 To 2024: Some 100th Year History Celebratory Insights   Flora Of Coastal New South Wales: 1920 To 1944    Pictures From The Past: Views Of Early Narrabeen Bridges - 1860 To 1966  SS Nemesis: 120-Year-Old Shipwreck Mystery Solved -Search For Relatives Begins  Pittwater Beach Reserves Have Been Dedicated For Public Use Since 1887 - No 1.: Avalon Beach Reserve- Bequeathed By John Therry  The Old Road To Narrabeen - The Unspoilt Days Of 100 Years Ago When You Could Still See The Sea  The Palladium Palm Beach (1930 To 1974) + Palm Beach Studio (1976 To 2024); from the March 2024 Meeting of the Avalon Beach Historical Society    A Tent Or Hut At The Basin During Holiday Times  Harold Tristram Squire Sculptures-Statues At Dungarvon, Mona Vale   Jonah's Road House Whale Beach  Damien Parer – A Bungan Beach And WWII War Photographer; Anzac Day 2024 Precursors  The 'Newport Loop': Some History  The Early Years of Bungan Beach Surf Life Saving Club - The Call to Bungan by W. E. Anschutz (Bill Anschutz)   Bilgola Plateau Parks For The People: Gifted By A. J. Small, N. A. K. Wallis + The Green Pathways To Keep People Connected To The Trees, Birds, Bees - For Children To Play   Bayview Sea Scouts Hall: Some History  Winifred Atwell - 'The Amazing Miss A'   Search For Modern Architecture Gems From 1940 To 1970 - An Invitation To Provide Input/Suggestions: 12 Local Examples   Peter Muller Designed 'Organic Architecture' - His Pittwater Buildings: 'Kumale' + Others, Are Great Suggestions For the ''Modern Architecture Study'' List  Narrabeen Lakes Amateur Swimming Club by Life Member Maureen Rutlidge OAM + North Narrabeen Rock Pool: Some History   Henry Lawson: A Manly Bard and Poet - for his birthday week  Roads To Pittwater: The Mona Vale Road   Milton Family Property History - Palm Beach By William (Bill) James Goddard II with photos courtesy of the Milton Family  Ella McFadyen's Love Of Pittwater: Children's Champion - for youngsters, for Winter School Holiday Break    Hordern Park, Palm Beach: Some History  Mona Vale SLSC's Frederick Claude Vivian Lane - Gold Medal Olympian At Paris 1900 Games: A Few Insights Into A Local Legend    Paris 2024 Olympic Games: 18 Locals Representing Australia  Eddie Scarf: an Olympian, butcher of North Narrabeen, Palm Beach + Dee Why & North Narrabeen SLSC Member   My Holiday By Charles de Boos – 1861: Manly to Barrenjoey  Historic boat winches restored to former glory at Long Reef + Dad's Fishing Shack at Long Reef by Ken 'Sava' Lloyd & Extras  History week 2024: North Head Quarantine Station, Manly - how Governor Ralph Darling saved Australians; saved Australia  Muogamarra Nature Reserve in Cowan celebrates 90 years: a few insights into The Vision of John Duncan Tipper, Founder  Manly's Wildflower Shows: Some History Careel Bay Steamer Wharf + Boatshed: some history  Avalon Beach Golf Links: Some History  Miniature Train Ride at Manly: a few history notes about having fun as a youngster  Avalon Beach Historical Society's September 2024 Meeting speaker: Ray Henman ACS on 70+ years of living in Pittwater 30 years since historic discovery of ancient dinosaur trees: Wollemi Pine Trees  A Bunch Of Wildflowers: Historical Spring September Songs  Pittwater Electorate Placenames History: from the West to the East  Bayview Sea Scouts Hall History: Updated with insights provided by 'T of Church Point'    Palm Beach Public Wharf: Some History   Harry Wolstenholme; Ornithologist Of Palm Beach, Bird Man Of Wahroonga   Narrabeen Cenotaph + RSL History: 100 and 65 years markers of service in 2021 - Narrabeen RSL Site Sold in 2024  Clareville Public Wharf: 1885 to 1935 - Some History  Dr. Isobel Ida Bennett AO: Tasmanian Krill Research Aquarium to be named for Our Girl  Mona Vale Primary School's World War Two Honour Roll Board: The Stories Behind the Names  Newport SLSC's Surf Boat Carnival on Saturday November 16 will be A Taste of Fantastic Local Surf Sports Carnivals for All Ages this 2024-25 Season: A few Local Surf Boat Carnivals from the 1920- 1960 Insights  Boulton's Jetty on 'Old Mangrove Bay' + Newport hotel jetty + Newport Public wharf: Some history  Salt Pan Cove Public Wharf on Regatta Reserve + Florence Park + Salt Pan Reserve + Refuge Cove Reserve: Some History  Bayview Public Wharf and Baths: Some History   David Hazlewood: Photographer of Avalon Beach SLSC Founders meeting   The Sly Family Of Manly and Narrabeen: Fishermen  + The First Surfboat At Manly   Pittwater Summer Houses: Florida House, Palm Beach  Pittwater Summer Houses:  Cooinoo Bungan Beach   Back To School In 2025 Inspires A Look Back At  A Pittwater Public School Set On The Estuary  The King and I on the Hawkesbury    Pittwater Summer Houses: Bangalla, Scotland Island  Narrabeen Lakes Sailing Club History: 120 Summers Spent 'Messing About In Boats'  Summer in Pittwater: Places to Stay, Ways to Play - Some History  Lucy Edith Gullett (Dr.) IWD2025 Celebrations Happy 100th Birthday Avalon Beach SLSC!    Max Dupain of Newport: Pittwater Photographer  The Zonta Club of the Northern Beaches: Celebrating 50 years of Action in 2025 - The Zonta Northern Beaches Annual Women's Day Breakfast    It's a 'Bit Sharky' out there: 5 Tagged Bull Sharks Pinged at North Narrabeen on Same Day - Bull Shark spotted at Bayview - Historical Insights  Avalon Beach Historical Society March 2025 Meeting: Sunrise Cottage, Palm Beach + Geoff Searl OAM Great Adventure on HM Bark Endeavour Replica - report by Roger Sayers OAM  Annie Wyatt Reserve, Palm Beach: Pittwater Fields of Dreams II - The Tree Lovers League  Stealing The Bush: Pittwater's Trees Changes - Some History   Stealing The Bush: Pittwater's Trees Changes - Some History  Methodist Church at Church Point: The Chapel the Point is Named after - Some History   Brown's Bay Public Wharf, on McCarrs Creek, Church Point: Some History  Carl Beeston Gow of Palm Beach - Gallipoli Veteran  Andrew Thompson of Scotland Island –  ‘Long Harry’  Pittwater's Koalas Driven to Extinction: Some History  Beverlie Farrelly in interview with PBWBA Secretary Robert Mackinnon: “Two Lives: Beverlie & Midget Farrelly”  Prosper de Mestre's Pittwater Connection: Future of Sydney’s transport unearths a window to its past: colonial-era merchant   Goddard Family History Website by William (Bill) James Goddard II  Avalon Beach Camping Ground Gave a Lot of Legends to the Pittwater Community  WEA's Newport Summer School – for Workers, WANS + Future U.S., B.P.F. Wives: Local Insights for The 80th Commemoration of VP Day in 2025  North Narrabeen in 1911 - Panoramas taken for West's Lakeside Estate  Snow Season 2025: Local Connections with the Sport of Skiing beginnings in Charles Kerry, Percy Hunter and Herbert Schlink  Old Fashioned Film Evening at Avalon Beach Historical Society's June 2025 Meeting  Church Point Public Wharf - 1885 to 2025: Some History  Bilgola Public School Celebrates 60th Birthday: The Anniversary Walk to recreate history  Pittwater's Tropical Fruits From The Middle Of Winter: July 1938   Early Pittwater Surfers John Ralston and Nora McAuliffe, and the introduction of the surfboard as lifesaving equipment: two legendary boards on Palm Beach at Same time - July 2025 - the Duke's and Jack Ralston's  Broken Section: The Story Of Pittwater's Anti-Submarine Boom Net  By John Illingsworth   Coastal Defences In World War Two: The Dee Why to Warriewood Sections   Avalon Beach SLSC During World War Two: The Police Boys Club Mans the Beaches  Elvina Bay's Public Wharves: Some History  Avalon Dunes replanting: can you help? + Some history of the Avalon Dunes  Threatened Species Day 2025 + A few insights into Pittwater's Past + Present Threatened Species  ABHS  2025 AGM – Film ‘Smithy’ shows Avalon Beach: the Kingsford-Smith Family connections to Pittwater - Community loses 5 Creative Geniuses - ABHS President Curating Avalon Beach  Aussie Bird Count 2025 Runs October 20-26: Our area's Australian Ornithologists  Lovett Bay Public Wharves: Some History   Retracing Governor Phillip's Footsteps around Pittwater: The Mystery of the Cove on the East Side   Avalon's 'Telford' Road to have signage about its Heritage   Pittwater's Beaches in January 1956: old slides  Narrabeen Lakes Amateur Swimming Club By Maureen Rutlidge OAM + North Narrabeen Rock Pool: Some History at Open of 2025-26 Season  Photographers of Early Pittwater: William Applegate Gullick – August 1st 1881 Visit by Princes Albert and George to Pittwater on Day Barrenjoey Lighthouse commenced to light the headland  The W. G. Taylor Memorial Home at Narrabeen: Some History  Scotland Island's Public Wharves: Some History The Peninsula Senior Citizens Toy Repair Group - A History for the 50th Anniversary Avalon PS Re-Opens Nura Djaroba by Geoff Searl OAM  Pittwater's Ocean Beach Rock Pools: Southern or northern Corners Of Bliss for the first week of summer 2025-2026  Newport's Dearin Reserve has had Residential Environmental Defenders Since 1906: Third Time inspired Iconic Logo Epitomising the Mangroves of the estuary Became Symbol of Pittwater Council  History Insights for 2025   Australia's first Tour of England Cricket Team was Indigenous: the Summer they Played at Manly - 1867  The Basin, Pittwater, During Holiday Times  On International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026 We Remember those Lost and the work of Sister Muriel Knox Doherty, Of Avalon Beach, at the Bergen-Belsen Camp   Careel Head Road Shops and the Bangalley- Burrowong Creeks: Some History  Bayview + Mona Vale + Brookvale Bricks: Makers Mark Every run of 10 Thousand Palm Beach Sailing Club's Hosting of the VJ' State Championships of February 25 1956  The Barrett Family of Pittwater  Taylors Point Public Wharf: Some History  Avalon Beach Historical Society's March 2026 Meeting: On Bangalley Headland's 'Ovens' Caves  Avalon Beach SLSC's Surf Boats: Some History from '100 Years of Saving Lives'  Crescent Reserve, Newport, on Old Mangrove Bay: Some History + 2026 Photos  Pittwater Summer Houses: The Oaks Villa, Mona Vale - 1898 to 1965   The Landing at Anzac Cove 25th April, 1915 - Fateful decisions and lost opportunity  Paradise Beach Public Wharf + Pool: Some history of 'Whispering Sands'

George Repins' Reflections

The Nineteen Thirties  Remembering Rowe Street  The Sydney Push  Saturday Night at the Movies  Shooting Through Like A Bondi Tram  A Stop On The Road To Canberra  City Department Stores - Gone and Mostly Forgotten  An Australian Icon - thanks to Billy Hughes  Crossing The Pacific in the 1930s  Hill End  The Paragon at Katoomba  Seafood In Sydney  How Far From Sydney?  Cockatoo Island Over The Years  The Seagull at the Melbourne Festival in 1991  Busby's Bore  The Trocadero In Sydney  Cahill's restaurants  Medical Pioneers in Australian Wine Making  Pedal Power and the Royal Flying Doctor Service  Pambula and the Charles Darwin Connection  Gloucester and the Barrington Tops  A Millenium Apart  Have You Stopped to Look?  Gulgong  Il Porcellino  Olympia  Durham Hall  Sargent's Tea Rooms Pie Shops and Street Photographers  The Ballet Russes and Their Friends in Australia  Hotels at Bondi  Alma Ata Conference - 1978 Keukenhof - 1954 The Lands Department Building and Yellowblock Sandstone  The Goroka Show - 1958  A Gem On The Quay  Staffa  The Matson Line and Keepsake Menus Kokeshi Dolls  The Coal Mine At Balmain  The Hyde Park Barracks  The Changing Faces Of Sydney From Pounds and Pence to Dollars and Cents Nell Tritton and Alexander Kerensky  Making A Difference In Ethiopia William Balmain  J C Bendrodt and Princes Restaurant Azzalin Orlando Romano and Romano's Restaurant  Waldheim  Alcohol in Restaurants Before 1955  King Island Kelp  The Mercury Theatre   Around Angkor - 1963   Angkor Wat 1963  Costumes From the Ballets Russe Clifton at Kirribilli  Chairman Mao's Personal Physician  The Toby Tavern The MoKa at Kings Cross  The Oceaographic  Museum  in Monaco  The Island of Elba  Russian Fairy Tale Plates  Meteora  Souda Bay War Cemetery Barrow, Alaska  Cloisonné  Tripitaka Koreana Minshuku The Third Man Photographs and Memories  Not A Chagall!  Did You Listen? Did You Ask?  Napier (Ahuriri, Maori) New Zealand  Borobudur  Ggantija Temples Plumes and Pearlshells  Murano  University of Padua  Ancient Puebloe Peoples - The Anasazi   Pula  The Gondolas of Venice Cinque Terre  Visiting the Iban David The Living Desert Bryce Canyon National Park   Aphrodisias   The Divine Comedy Caodaism  Sapa and local Hill People  A Few Children  Cappadocia  Symi Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre   Aboriginal Rock Art on Bigge Island    ANZAC Cove (Ari Burnu) 25 April, 1997  Hotere Garden Oputae  Children of the Trobriand Islands  Page Park Market - Rabaul  Rabual   Kotor, Montenegro   Galleries of Photographs I   Lascaux  Galleries of Photographs II   The Cathedral of St. James – Šibenik, Croatia  Ivan Meštrović  - Sculptor   Delphi   Gallery of Photographs III  The Handicrafts of Chiang Mai Raft Point  San Simeon - "Hearst Castle"  Floriade - The Netherlands - 1982  Russian New Year  Mycenae  "Flightseeing" Out Of Anchorage Alaska  The White Pass and Yukon Route  Totem Poles  Tivkin Cemetery  Krka National Park - Croatia  Tavistock Square and the BMA  Orthodox Easter  Wieliczka Salt Mine  A Walk on Santorini  Indonesian Snapshots  Ephesus - The Library of Celsus  Ephesus - Some Places Of Interest  Waimea Canyon and the Kalalau Valley United Nations Headquarters 1958  A Miscellany of Flower Images  Gardens  Bath St. David's In Wales   Zion National Park Nicholas Himona - Artist  Kraków  Lilianfels  Collonges-La-Rouge  Gingerbread Houses   Cape Sounion   Delos  Wroclaw  Colonial Williamsburg  Gruyères   Strasbourg  Coventry Cathedral  The Roman Theatre at Aspendos  Turkish Carpets The Duomo of Orvieto  Rovinj  The City Walls of Dubrovnik Monaco - Snapshots   Bonifacio, Corsica  Autumn in New England USA  The Great Ocean Road  Pompeii  Didyma  Lawrence Hargrave 1850-1915  The Corinth Canal  Malta  Snapshots of Amsterdam Café Central - Vienna  The Forbidden City - Beijing, China  A Ride on the Jungfrau Railway - 1954   Snapshots in the Highlands of Scotland 1954  Must See Sights in Paris - 1954  Corfu  Reflections On the Nineteen Thirties The Gold Souk in Dubai  Stromboli   Ha Long Bay - Vietnam  Lake Argyle The Bungle Bungle Range Langgi Inlet, W.A.  White Cliffs, NSW - 1990  Sturt National Park - May, 1990 A Few Statues and Water Spouts  The Dodecanese Archipelago  Rhodes  Lindos The Church on Spilled Blood - 2005 Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad Repin's In "Ladies In Black"  Signs of the Times at Sydney Museum: Repin Inns

Collectors Corner pages:

Blacksmiths and Tinsmiths  Nylon Stockings Poster Art Furphy's Water Cart   Mousehole Anvil  Sapphire One Armed Bandit  Gould's 1840 Single and Compound Microscope  Tibetan Thangka Wheel Of Life Painting  Cast Iron Seats  Mabel Lucie Atwell Prints  The Customs of Traditional Dining by Hans and Jenny Carlborg  Albert Collins Landscape   Boomerang Harmonicas  Drinking: 18th Century Style Part I by H&J Carlborg  Drinking 18th Century Style Part II by H&J Carlborg Fleece Shears  Wood Case Crank Telephone  1803 Timepeice  Vintage Guitars  Milestones  No.38 Rolls Royce Motor Oiler  Christmas Postcards  Seashells  McCormick-Deering Horse Drawn Mower  Rope Making Machine  Marilyn Monroe 1955 Calendar  Stubbie Holders  Hill's Hoist  Akubra Hat  Fowler's Bottling Kit The Bold Autographed Script  Fishing Tackle  Arnotts Biscuit Tins  Comic Books  Silver Opium Pipe  Mrs Beetons Book  Souvenir Teaspoons  Bendigo Pottery  Gianelli Figurines  Key Fobs  Model Aircraft-static  Porcelain Slippers Wagon Wheels Rhys Williams Painting  Chinese Guardian Lions Australian Halfpenny  Bud Vases  Rolling Stones Still Life LP Autographed  WL1895 Thinking Monkey  Estee Lauder Ginger Jar  Reel Mowers  Surf Reels Millers Car Collection Hilton Lingerie - Slips Miniature Books of Verse - A Romantic Tradition  REGA Pouring Can  R O Dunlop - Sailing At Itchenor Painting Morning Shadows by C Dudley Wood  The Father of Santa Claus - Xmas 2012  HMS Penguin Anchor at RPAYC - Newport  SS Birubi Mast at RMYC - Broken Bay  Helen B Stirling Ship's Wheel at Club Palm Beach   Woomeras  HMS Endeavour Replica Cannon at RPAYC Vintage Sheet Music: William Stanley's  Bay View Gavotte  The Doug Crane Classic Handmade Double Blade Paddle  HMS Bounty Wooden Ship Model Collecting Ladies - Ferdinand Von Mueller and Women Botanical Artists  Australian Bark Art  Chinese Ginger Jars  Hand Plough and Jump Stump Plough - Australian Inventions Frank Clune Books  Frederick Metters - Stoves, Windmills, Iron Monger  Trinket Boxes  1933 Wormald Simplex Fire Extinguisher is Pure Brass  Chapman 'Pup' Maine Engines - Chapman and Sherack  The Beach Ball  Figureheads Salty Wooden Personifications of Vessels  Binnacle at RMYC  The Australian Florin - Worth More Than 20 Cents to Collectors  Weathervanes; For Those Passionate About Seeing Which Way the Wind Blows Her Majesty's Theatre 1962 Programme - Luisillo and his Spanish Dance Theatre  Cooper's Sheep Shower Enamel Sign and Simpson's and Sons of Adelaide Jolly Drover Sugar Bowl and English Pottery A Means to Gaze into the Past Chief Joseph and Edward S Curtis; His Images of Native Americans an Inestimable Record of Images and Portrait Photographs His Masters Voice, Old 78s and Australia's Love of Music Jack Spurlings 'Tamar' Picture 1923  Resch's Beer Art - A Reflection of Australiana Now Worth Thousands  The Compleat Angler - Izaak Walton's Discourse Inspires Generations of Fishers Portable Ice-Boxes and Coolers How Many Claim This Invention as Theirs?  Malley's and Sons Ltd. - A Munificent Australian Family Company  Vintage Paddles and Gigs  Nautical Memorabilia  The Crinoline - a 550 Year Old Fashion  B.B. King - King of the Blues Goes Home: a Timely look into Photographs and Autographs and Being Buyer Aware  Deep Down Among the Coral - By Christopher Corr - A Limited Edition Print in Celebration of the seventy fifth anniversary of QANTAS Airways  Old Chinese Rice Bowls for Marriage: Worth More Than You Think...   Commanderie St. John: An Ancient Wine - From 1927 with Lineage to Cyprus in 1210/92 and Methods of Production to Greece in 800 B.C.  Pittwater Regatta Air Race Trophies: from 1934 and 1935 and The Pilot Who Saved William Hughes  Vintage Brass Mortar and Pestle  1958 Bedford 'D' Truck and GM Holden Australian Made Car Bodies  Heart Padlock Charm Bracelets for Newborns: A Golden Tradition  Marvellous Marbles: An All Ages Preoccupation for Collectors  Antique Silver Fish Servers: Artisans Past  Tuckfield's Bird Cards: to Swap or Collect   Joseph Lyddy – O.B.B. Dubbin Boot Polish  Vintage Wooden Tennis Racquets: A Collectors Item As Popular As Summer  Australian Trade Tokens Record Enriching Colonial Histories: the Cascade Shilling First Art Form To Record 'Tasmania' And Kangaroos  Australian Vinyl Singles of the 1950's and 1960's  Dicken's The Old Curiosity Shop bought at The Old Curiosity Shop  Pear's Soap: Artworks For The Masses  Collecting Vintage Photographs: Early Tasmanian Photographer - J W Beattie  Cyclops Vintage Toys  Year Dated Beer Bottles Found In The Estuary Adjacent To Taylors Point - Roger Wickins   Collecting Matchboxes: A Great Way To Explore History And Art  Black Bakelite Telephone: Early Pittwater Phone Numbers  Butter Churns and Milk Separators: Early Pittwater Dairies F100 Ford truck: 1977 model   Collecting Buttons  Photographers Of Pittwater Capture Historic Insights: A. J. (Arthur James) Vogan, 1859-1948 Historic Photographers Of Pittwater: Harold 'Caz' Cazneaux 1878 - 1953  Photographers of Early Pittwater: The Macphersons of 'Wharriewood' and Bayview  Photographers Of Early Pittwater: Charles Bayliss Photographers Of Early Pittwater: Henry King  Photographers Of Early Pittwater: David 'Rex' Hazlewood  Were Manly's Statues, Smashed For Road Ballast, Sculpted By Achille Simonetti?  Tablespoons - The Original Soup Spoons  Tram Memorabilia - Historic Daylight Run For Sydney Light Rail Begins 80 Years After Last Tram To Narrabeen Closed  Samuel Wood Postcards of Pittwater and Manly   The Victa Lawnmowers Story With A Careel Bay Link  Collecting Snow Globes Sydney Bus Museum Volunteers Helps Mona Vale Bus Depot Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of Opening  Manly Children's Festival Federation Of A Commonwealth Medals Of 1901: Collecting Commemorative Medals  Ranelagh Hotel 'Mist' Scent Bottle (Robertson Hotel): Collecting Vintage And Antique Perfume Decanters Stargazing In Pittwater: An End Of Daylight Savings Pastime - The 2020 CWAS David Malin Photography Awards Are Now Open  QANTAS During Centenary Year: 2020 Stamp Collecting Month 2020: Wildlife Recovery Miniature Books of Verse for Spring 2020  June 1942 Rhys Williams Painting of Sydney Harbour Attack