Bondi Beach through time

Sydney 1920–2015 4 photos of this spot

4 photographs taken at the same spot in Sydney, spanning 1920–2015 — 3 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

Members of surf life saving clubs perform at a carnival on Bondi Beach, Sydney, in this photograph from around 1920. Surf carnivals of this kind showcased rescue skills and had become a popular public spectacle on Australian beaches by the early twentieth century.

EU: Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia: members of Life Saving Clubs put on a display at a surf carnival. Photograph, ca. (1920) 1920 Members of surf life saving clubs perform at a carnival on Bondi Beach, Sydney, in this photograph from around 1920. Surf carnivals of this kind showcased rescue skills and had become a popular public spectacle on Australian beaches by the early twentieth century.

EU: Reisefotos Australien. Sydney, Bondi Beach, Badende (1938) 1938 Bathers at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, photographed in 1938. Bondi has long been one of Sydney's most popular ocean beaches, drawing swimmers to its stretch of sand on the city's eastern coastline.

EU: Travel photos Australia. Sydney, Bondi Beach. Swimming competition of lifeguards on the beach, spectators (1938) 1938 A lifeguard swimming competition draws spectators to Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, in this 1938 photograph. Surf lifesaving contests were an established part of beach culture in Sydney by the interwar period.

Bondi Beach 2015 Bondi Beach, the well-known stretch of sand on Sydney's eastern coastline, appears in this photograph taken in 2015.