History

The North Shore

Old photos of the 'North Shore' of Heron Island, including wharf, floats, beach, store, etc. Please upload any photos that would add to this collection! Click on the photo after uploading to add a caption giving some context and/or source information.

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1933

1936

1973 Arnold Gamage and Pete Signell on float.

1954 Hurricane Edna wharf damage

1926 Ginny Humphries

1926 Wharf

1934

1936

1952 North shore, photo by Sylvia Engdahl, granddaughter of Sarah Butler

1940ish narrow wharf.

1896 Maclaves swimming at the north shore.

1895ish skiff float

1886 North shore and shed. Before any cottages were built.

1886 Earliest known photo of the wharf.

1886 view of the north shore and Club House. The Store building was constructed in 1893.

1887 view of North Shore from the Hotel.

1906 excellent view of wharf and north shore with new addition on Store, and newly constructed Rosebank (Bennett) and West Point (Long) cottages

1932ish L- ?, C- Mary Thompson Alexander, R-Elizabeth Morris Signell

1928 Mrs Foley and Mary Thompson.

1908 North Shore (Alpha col)

North Shore, 1906 (Alpha col)

1893 north shore view. First known photo of the store, which is half the width, with a bowling alley behind. (Alpha col)

Enterprise. (Alpha)

1895ish Bowling Alley (left) and Old Gamage "store", far right.(Alpha collection)

1969 Narrow wharf. Note the guy wires on either side and jeep on the wharf.

1900ish Pier and Steamship Winurna. Horse and carriage visible on the pier. Photo from Heron Island Facebook Group

Float on the west side of the wharf; 1930s or 1940s.

1940ish Narrow wharf.

1940s Narrow wharf.

1900ish Steamer Winurna at landing.

1914 Mildred Butler and friends.

1908 North shore view with Ice House, bowling alley and West Point cottage.

1920ish North shore view after hotel fire in 1917, but before 1922 when the Ice House and Bowling alley, visible here, were deconstructed and used to build Hill House.

1930 North shore.

1910 Postcard... image depicts wharf with luggage shed.

1895 wharf view with boys playing on the rocks.

1900 era steamboat landing. Note the passengers waiting to get off the boat on the lower deck, and horse dung on the wharf.

1900ish Busy day at the North Shore, before a shed had been built on the end of the Wharf.

1900 era north shore view with the original store, run by Albion P. Gamage. The shop was transformed in 1905 into 'Rosebank', now inhabited by the Bennett Clan.

1895

View of north shore, probably around 1895. Ice House not yet built. Chimneytwist visible on the left.

1890 E(dwin) Rogers was the manager of the Hotel from 1889-1899, and great-great uncle of Morris/Signell Clan. Gamage's store visible in the background.

1895 Cows arriving or departing from the island. There were two cows and a horse on the island for most of the Hotel era.

1900ish Steamship Winurna (Bath Steamer) pulling into wharf.