Original 1910s
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Most of the older photos of Bondi Junction, and indeed Bondi generally, available at Waverley Archives are in pretty atrocious condition, like the b/w one here. So I've begun to work on some of the more illustrative ones and will present them in course.
Here, the original 1870s version of the old Royal Surrey, a significant pub that stood a few doors down from the main intersection. After acquisition by East's Leagues in 1961, it was eventually demolished for a department store that later went out of business, and has seen a few conversions since.
It looks to have had a pre-WW1 expansion and makeover, and then a pre-WW2 art deco remodel at ground level that got a write-up in a 1937 design magazine.
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