bondibeach

27 photos tagged bondibeach, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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1897

2015

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Royal Australian Historical Society 3 photos
National Library of Australia 3 photos
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Bondi Beach, Sydney, c. 1872 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded February 2026
Crowds at Bondi Beach, Sydney, December 1929 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded May 2024
Sunday at Bondi, Sydney, by Max Dupain, winter 1940 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded August 2022
Bondi Beach, c.1930, Milton Kent from State Library of New South Wales uploaded October 2018
Bondi Beach, Sydney, 1922 / photographed by R. P. Moore from State Library of New South Wales uploaded January 2017
Bondi Beach and Ben Buckler looking North - 1937 from Royal Australian Historical Society uploaded September 2016
bcp_01090r from State Library of New South Wales uploaded December 2015
Bondi Beach / photograph by Hall & Co. from State Library of New South Wales uploaded July 2014
'Bondi Pool' RAHS/Osborne Collection from Royal Australian Historical Society uploaded April 2014
'Bondi Beach' RAHS/Osborne Collection from Royal Australian Historical Society uploaded April 2014
Bondi Beach from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded January 2014
Bondi Beach, New South Wales, 1937 / Reg Alder from National Library of Australia uploaded November 2013
Miss Jean Watts running on Bondi Beach with a dog, New South Wales, 1925 / M. H. Robinson from National Library of Australia uploaded November 2013
New Baths, Bondi Beach, NSW from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded September 2013
Laying the Pacific Cable from Bondi, Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded May 2013

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Miss Jean Watts running on Bondi Beach with a dog, New South Wales, 1925 / M. H. Robinson

from National Library of Australia

6 older comments, and then…
Nev said:
I wonder who was Miss Watts ? She sure was photogenic. Love the dog tugging on the towel.
beachcomber australia said:
Nev I think she might be Jean Watts "the 12 year-old wonder swimmer" from Bondi where her father Harold Watts controlled the surf sheds. trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/103547089 trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/103549060 The photo reminds me of one of the old adverts for soap - can't remember which brand !
National Library of Australia said:
Thank you very much for your research Beachcomber! We have now updated the catalogue record to indicate this is indeed Miss Jean Watts. nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4981298
beachcomber australia said:
National Library of Australia A pleasure to add a little information to this wonderful image. I have not had much more success with finding what happened to Miss Jean Watts. Her swimming career seems to have burned out in about 1929. Her father Harold Watts, who managed the Bondi surf sheds, died in 1926, just after this photo - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/128102390 . It wasn't SOAP I was reminded of, but the famous COPPERTONE advert (created 1953) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppertone_sign
pellethepoet said:
Miss Jean Watts was married in late 1936 or early 1937. - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/17293553 She became Mrs [E.] R. Johnston, and in April 1944 her husband was appointed Science Master at the Broken Hill High School. - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/49561753. From 1947 he was Science Master and Deputy Headmaster at Narrandera High School, and beginning 1952 was appointed Headmaster of Katoomba High School. - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/101619209

Filmmaker James Fitzpatrick, a camera crew and a crowd of people at Bondi Beach

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

beachcomber australia said:
Is this photo part of the 'Caronia' collection? If so, I think this may be one of the passengers, Mr James A. Fitzpatrick, "travel-talk producer", mentioned in this newspaper article - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18199880 - as filming in Bondi amongst other locations. Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Fitzpatrick Pathe News clip on YouTube - youtu.be/DZnSocLKjWw Los Angeles Times - projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/james-a-fitzpatr...
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia Right again of course! This image is part of the same collection & by the same photographer as the CARONIA pics. Well found as continuing through the collection I found this: www.flickr.com/photos/anmm_thecommons/7841591590/in/photo...

Bondi Bay, Sydney

from Powerhouse Museum

9 older comments, and then…
AussieGold said:
How nice it would be if it still looked like this! No fast food stores, no luxury apartments, no carpark....
Steep Spark said:
Could this be a group of orphan children at the beach on a Sunday, or a field trip of school or church children? They don't seem to be with their separate families - One can see a few adults in the background standing guard, watching. Only one child is completely bare standing at the edge of the waves, another in underwear. I get the feeling they aren't even with this group of children at all. Very few seem to be taking advantage of the ocean. Most all of the children (students ?) are wearing full public dress. Girls are wearing standard white dresses, some with smock aprons, hats, stockings and shoes are on. Boys in full dress and hats as well. Where are their bathing costumes? This group seem to be observing the water rather than enjoying it for seaside activities, early 1900s to 1910s...
seLusava photographer Carioca Copacabana said:
Awesome!
John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Best Vintage Images on Flickr, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
beachcomber australia said:
Henry King (the photographer) took another photograph minutes earlier a little to the left -

"No.1440 Bondi Bay Sydney (H.King Syd:)" NAA, Dated 1894