BONDI BEACH - 27 July 1901 (Sydney Living Museums) Dressed for winter in stockings, shoes, hats and coats the Allen children build sandcastles with their mother, Ethel, while the coachman, Jacob, waits in the horse-drawn cart. Jacob later traded his horses for a Fiat when Arthur Allen became one of the first Sydneysiders to embrace the motorcar. In the distance is the chimney from the North Bondi sewage outfall that had begun operating in 1889. From 1882 the State Government began to resume Bondi beach from private ownership after which roads, hotels, houses and schools were built. The Bondi sand dunes extended all the way to Rose Bay, with large areas of dunes still exposed into the 1930s.
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