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Love it, but this is around the wrong way, needs to be flipped horizontally :)

Mark Merton Ahh yes... that looks better! Thanks!

I think this may be a little before November 1931 ... see below: "In 1931 the Port Jackson Steamship Company constructed an enormous enclosed shark-proof bathing area in Manly Cove, adjacent to the ferry wharf. It opened in December 1931. The pool and its distinctive play equipment of pontoons, slides and treadmills was designed and built by the company’s workforce at Kurraba Point. It was described at the time as “the finest swimming pool in Australia”, superior to anything the other Sydney beach resorts could offer." Source: www.manly.nsw.gov.au/DownloadDocument.ashx?DocumentID=139...

Manly: Bayside suburb 19km east. Land sales began in the area in the 1860s and the name came from Manly in Sydney. Source; hicksrealestate.com.au/secret-history-brisbanes-suburbs-z/

This part of Moreton Bay was originally occupied by the semi-nomadic Mipirimm subclan of the Quandamooka people. Manly and neighboring suburb Lota were and continue to be known together as Narlung to the Quandamooka people,[15] likely meaning 'the place of long shadows'. European settlement of the Manly area first took place from 1859 when the land was surveyed and Thomas Jones obtained a land grant of 200 acres (81 ha). Joseph Lewthwaite built the first house in the area, a stone homestead he called Wyvernleigh at what is now the intersection of Oceana Terrace and Kooralgin Street; it would later also be known as Tingalpa House.[17][18][19] What is now Manly was known as Wyvernleigh and managed as part of the Lewthwaite's estate, which included a sugar plantation.[20] Aboriginal connection to the Manly area continued throughout the colonial period, with town camps recorded in Manly and Wynnum, and local Aboriginal groups running fishing, oyster-catching and turtle-hunting expeditions from the area into the 1920s. In 1882, the land was sold by auction by James R. Dickson for the Manly Beach Estate, apparently named after Manly, New South Wales beach in Sydney. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manly,_Queensland

Almost unrecognisable from today (2013). Manly Vale, North Manly and North Balgowlah look like grazing land. Pittwater Road bisects the scene, the gauntlet tracked tramway bridge to the photographer's right. This shot taken from Queenscliff headland.

A 1951 view from Foto Supplies on Flickr: and more recently from ebroh:

I don't think that is Pittwater Road ? That bridge is where the current bridge across the lagoon outlet is, to Queenscliff. Pittwater Road crosses the lagoon further west.

Mich Sorry Mich I may have confused you. You're right of course the footbridge in the foreground leads to Queenscliff and Freshwater (Harbord). I was referring to the road to the west, you can see the bridges in the middle distance.

Andy Brill Andy (and Ebroh) many thanks for the comparison shots. I must go for a clamber on Queenscliff Headland and frame a shot as near as I can to SRA's original - the trouble is that the headland is covered with home unit blocks now!