Beaumaris Foreshore Reserve between Reserve Road at left and Tramway Parade, Beaumaris, at right, with Burgess Street at the centre, 28th February 1999.

 

The large structure near the beach is the Beaumaris Life Saving Club, with its recently added second storey.

 

The cleared freehold land on the south corner of Reserve Road and Beach Road, Beaumaris, was the site of Chipperfield's Restaurant in the 1980s. It was named after the owners of the first business that operated at that site.

 

The land had been the site of the former Beaumaris Wine Cafe, which was a small shop that was in operation on that site in the 1940s. The "wine cafe" was a prewar category of licensed premises that was discontinued soon after the war. Such premises catered for people that seemed to be fond of the fortified wines that represented the main consumption of wine in Australia then. One could often see customers emerging clutching 2 litre glass flagons of sherry or port in brown paper bags.

 

Between the Wine Cafe period and the last use of the site as a restaurant, there was in the 1960s and 1970s a different building again, which was a restaurant called The Didgeridoo.

 

See the indigenous plants and the pest plants recorded on this section of the foreshore.