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Still on my mission to track down old shots of our beachfront and surfing from back in the day. My quest led me to Dr Peter Schwartz, who has the most incredible collection of shots of PE's beachfront from the 70's onwards, plus a quite few from the museum archives There's so many good 'un's that I'll be putting them up on a beach per beach basis. So let's start with Hummies... Thanks for sharing your collection Peter, stoked! 
Back in 1902 - before the had the concrete pylons
Pre-car days - just loving the carriage on the beach!
Humewood was THE beach to swim at back in the day. Packed in 1926!
Humewood was pretty much the end of the road - literally. The tar road stopped at the beach.
The bathing pavilion. To the southern end of the beach as we know it today. Pay your bucks, get changed into your cossie in your own lil room!
Bathing Pavilion from the road side
Bathing Pavilion from the beach. High tide used to wash up under it.
A view from where Brookes Hill is today
The famous ropes. Apparently there so you could swim out and dangle on 'em for a rest. Think chicks bathing cossies were kinda heavy in those days!
Anyone shed light on what this building was? On the site of where the curios sellers are today opposite Brookes.
Check the ship pulled up onto the slipway in the background
Learnt something from this pic - didn't know the breakwater used to extend the whole way round. Today only the portion parallel to the road remains.
The original car park with slipway extending into it
The lifesaving tower at the end of the breakwater. Fell into disrepair in the late 70's I think, and was just demolished
This photo was taken by Jonty Hansford from the tower. 1976
Jonty recalls the beach having a lot more sand back in the 70's, with ropes being really close to shore at low tide. It made surfing at high tide a bit of a lotto though. Apparently you just suddenly heard this whooshing sound coming toward you - and you knew it meant it was the rope slicing through the face of the wave. Plenty guys apgot axed by that rope! Musta been funny to see, but not so funny if you were the one getting guillotined! Rumour has it that Barry Heasley was one of the unlucky one's!
Turtle Morris remembers seeing some dude hung out to dry on it - he'd bailed on the wave, and his board ended up on the other side of the rope to him - so he was left dangling by his leash! Ah, those musta been the days! Dig to see more vintage pics - check out the Vintage section here.
Martin Mitchell
5/20/2013 06:57:28 am
Great set of pics! The breakwater you refer to was still there in the late 50s/early 60s and I recall that it had become undermined so that there would be a strong current moving backwards and forwards under the wall. I seem to remember that there was at least one drowning there because of this. As kids we were always warned to stay well away.
Andrea
5/20/2013 03:44:00 pm
I think that building was the old roller skating ring. 6th picture from the bottom.
Mary
5/20/2013 07:33:21 pm
We used to roller skate at the Tin Hat in the late '50's
Jessie
5/21/2013 04:52:22 am
That round building you wanted to know about was a very fancy tearoom which later became a skating rink for rollerskates after the tearoom was (I think) demolished. And the lifesaving tower at the end of the breakwater disappeared with the floods of 1968. Most of everything disappeared with those floods!!! Such a pity!!! A bit of that breakwall can still be seen in between the rocks further up the beach towards the stairs. I remember swimming at Humewood Beach since my very early childhood days and it was ALWAYS packed to capacity! I also remember us parking in that parking area next to the Bathing House. In those days everybody went to Humewood.....those were they days!
Dave Mould
5/26/2013 08:04:06 pm
I remember surfing at the ropes on a huge day. As i was taking off, the cable clipped me across the chest and shot me like an arrow ...backwards. It left a black grease stripe on my Banzai wettie. Some boards were broken ... i think Chappie Adshade was one of the victims Comments are closed.
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