The unique area of Pittwater is captured in beautiful black and white photographs of the beaches, bays, inlets and inhabitants. This remote part of Sydney was first accessed by boat and later rough roads allowed access by coach from the Manly wharf.
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Newport was a new port for the area where
people
could arrive by water to stay in the area. Isolated farmers and fishermen
lived here in the nineteenth century but by the age of the motor car
visitors drove up to the golf clubs and beaches. Holiday homes and
substantial stone houses appeared around Palm Beach by the 1920s and slowly
the area became residential. With artists and writers living there it
was where
wealth met Bohemia. Today Pittwater is surrounded by the bushland of the
national park and people still travel by water rather than road. Yacht
clubs
and marinas sit on the shoreline and the southern boundary is Narrabeen
Lakes.
Written by Joan Lawrence. Pictorial History Lavender Bay to the
Spit, St George and Sydney Good Walks Guide are amongst
many of her titles. 144 pages, black & white. A4 format.
ISBN 0-908272-86-3
