Bondi Beach Post Office
Bondi Beach Post Office is a heritage-listed post office at 20 Hall Street, Bondi Beach, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was added to the Australian Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 August 2012. History In the early 1800s swimming at Sydney's beaches was considered to be a controversial pastime, although becoming more popular by mid-century. In this period, Bondi Beach was seen as being too remote from central Sydney. By the 1900s, however, restrictive attitudes to swimming began to relax and the beach became associated with healthy recreation and leisure activities. Bondi Beach was also declared a "public beach" in the 1880s, and the first tramway reached the beach in this period. Bondi Beach became a popular attraction for families and recreational swimmers. Waverley Municipal Council built the first surf bathing sheds in the early 1900s, and the famous Bondi Pavilion in 1929. By the 1930s Bondi was drawing not only local visitors but also people from elsewhere in Australia and overseas. As Bondi grew in popularity as a popular surfing beach in the interwar period, so did the development and suburbanisation of the area. The Bondi Beach Post Office was erected in 1922, at the time the area was