Sandringham Baths are located on the shore of Botany Bay, in the southern suburb of Sandringham. The weather has started to cool now that Autumn has arrived and there weren't any swimmers here late in the afternoon as this seagull kept watch. This area had been known as Stripper's Point in the 1830s, from the local occupation of tree-felling and bark-stripping. Luckily the name was changed to Sandringham by William Rust, an ardent royalist who built the Prince of Wales Hotel here in the 1870s to honour Edward VII, the Prince of Wales, who in 1872 was also building a royal residence at Sandringham, in Norfolk, England.
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Ah ha that kind of stripper! Put together with 'baths' that wasn't at all what I was thinking. Yup good thing it was renamed.
As always, love seeing your beautiful skies and photos -- such a great area.
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Love the solitary seagull!
I was wondering about the “stripper” until you explained. This is such a serene shot capturing that perfect time of the day. Lovely.
Maybe the bird already knows about the weather that will come. A beautiful picture indeed. Please have a good Wednesday.
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I enjoyed your post and learning a little about this great place.
Cool shot..happy WW!
Beautiful place indeed...
The new name is more appropriate :)
Interesting place :) Enjoyed the history.
Oooo, eyebrows were raised when I read "Stripper's Point" but, yes, I see my mind was in the gutter...again lol.
Lovely photo :)
That water looks very, very lovely.
That's lovely!
Everything is so blue! Beautiful!...Christine
great shot.
What an interesting post... love the photo with the lone seagull...
Beautiful blue! The first time I saw one of these was during a home exchange I had in Lymington England.
Thank you for sharing and have a fabulous day!
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Nice Autumn light and I love the sea gull pointing south
Love the colours and of course the gull.
I sort of like these old traditional bathing areas. Sandringham sounds so very English but it is part of the history of this area.
Interesting. You seem to know a little bit about a lot. I appreciate your research.
Glad you explained the 'stripper' part. LOL
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Lugar tranquilo e bonito! Linda foto!
I love the seagull sitting guard on the sign! It looks like he's looking out over his kingdom :-)
It took a bit of zooming in to figure out the 'no fishing' icon!
Thanks for sharing this info. This makes blog hopping worthwhile. I learned new things and I see new places without living my home :)
Have a blessed week.
Stripper's Point could be a more interesting name.:p
Signs here
When did you come to my neighbourhood? Next time you come, knock on the door and I will treat you some feijoa wine.
I was eating feijoas with a friend who bought some feijoa wine. What is feijoa?
It is a New Zealand guava,
Honestly, I live in Sandringham, next door to the queen I tell every body. LOL
Love the seagull guard and the interesting facts.
I bet a nice place to visit during a summer afternoon.
Luna may be right! But maybe that would be an invitation to behaviour not appreciated by the locals. Signs like this always make me wonder why they just don't say, NO FUN ALLOWED. :-D
A sign with a seagull on it! :-) Great timing.
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