A pavilion for the people

Title: A pavilion for the people
Creator: Ramsland, John
Relation: Wood, Brick and Stone: The Making of the Hunter p. 63-69
Relation: http://www.catchfirepress.com.au/people-of-the-valley-book-launch/
Publisher: Catchfire Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2011
Description: Why does the 1933 Bar Beach Bathing Pavilion loom large in everybody's memory of growing up? Was there sand in our souls? Did it symbolise our national identity, our sense of belonging? Was it more than timber, bricks and concrete? From the steep windswept hill above Bar Beach at the northern end, the vista of 1920 can still recreate itself from old photographs- a mix of majestic natural seascape and man-made ugliness dotted darkly around. On the landward side, we see the dreary black smear made by the coal railway line running parallel with the sea cutting straight across the sand dunes and stretching back to Merewether and forward to the port on the Hunter estuary. Every now and then, coal wagons would rattle by. At the southern end of the beach, a railway tunnel cut in the side of the hill can be made out like the dark gap caused by a missing tooth. Merewether Baths did not exist then. Instead, waves are breaking on the rocks just below the tunnel.
Subject: Newcastle; Bar Beach; beach culture; surfing
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1053632
Identifier: uon:15633
Identifier: ISBN:9780975792650
Language: eng

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