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Photo gallery

When the beach is your Workplace

This photo gallery, of Waverley Council Lifeguards, has been created as part of the Lifeguard History Project. This project is on-going. If you have photos relating to the Lifeguard service which you would like to donate, or lend to us for copying, we would love to hear from you.

Copyright in all images is held either by Waverley Council or individual contributors. If you would like a copy of one of the photos, or to use these photo gallery images in any way, please contact the Local Studies Librarian by email: local_history@waverley.nsw.gov.au

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Stan McDonald and early beach flags, Bondi 1920s	Beach Inspectors in their new uniforms Bondi Beach late 1930s	Beach Inspector & bikini girl cartoon 1955
Bill "the whale" Willis, children & sea snake c. 1960s	Bill Willis, Aud Laidlaw, Brian Davidson known as the 3 musketeers, c. 1960s	Lifeguard & bikini girl cartoon 1961
Bill "the whale" Willis stars on the Beach Inspector's dinner program	Beach Inspectors tell topless bathers to leave Bondi 1972	Brian Davidson oiling the surf reel
Roger Riley - Bondi Lifeguard	Dennis (Dinny) Brown 1st WC Lifeguard and his wife and daughters	Lifeguard Brian Davidson demonstrating a rescue
Roger Riley - Bondi Lifeguard	Lifeguards and piper honour Stan McDonald 1965	Stan McDonald 2nd WC Lifeguard
New Lifeguard Tower, February 1975	Peter Moscatt, Lifeguard, footballer and eventually Mayor of Waverley	Beach Inspector cloth badge
Three Lifeguards in white uniforms 1990s	Lifeguards with a logie for Bondi Rescue 2008	Lifeguards 2006-2007
Lifeguards 2007-2008	Lifeguards 2008-2009