Comparing the two photos above shows how much the recreational infrastructure on the beach developed over a period of about ten years. In the first there is a line of bathing boxes, privately owned but licensed by the shire, which had been multiplying since 1909. Publicans and boarding house keepers erected them for their house guests, the two girls boarding schools had their own, as did the Country Women’s Association, and some were built by wealthy individuals. By the late 1920s the shire had succumbed to pressure from the local progress association to erect public changing boxes, male and female, and shelter sheds, and a £300 life-saving clubhouse had been built, all on the beach.