North Cottesloe Beach was the favoured beach of Marcia Chayter and Jack Harrison during the early 1950s.
It was located along the coast of Western Australia just north of main Cottesloe Beach, centred around Eric Street and Marine Parade in the suburb of Cottesloe, with public transport via train to Cottesloe and buses to the coast.
The North Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club, founded in 1918 as Western Australia’s second surf club, had its clubhouse positioned across Marine Parade, with change rooms (ladies’ in the foreground, men’s behind) and a prominent wooden surf lookout tower nearby. The area was known for its natural limestone rocks (such as the Grant Street rocks to the north) and open coastal frontage before major groynes and artificial breakwaters transformed the local sand levels and surf breaks later in the 1950s and 1960s. Beachgoers and local youths gathered under beach access ramps for shade, and the club’s lookout tower was even used by members to broadcast music and local announcements over loudspeaker systems to the beach below.
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