Cottesloe Pier - postcard from early 1900s (via Photos from Beautiful buildings and cool places Perth has lost) Many piers in Australia were used for landing supplies by ship, but the Cottesloe Pier, built in 1906, was always used as a promenade for pleasure only. Built by the Cottesloe Roads Board, (the first wooden jetty had washed away in a storm in 1903) the pier had a bandstand, was 382 feet in length and was very popular, attracting huge crowds. This postcard shows bathing boxes on the beach and the old Rottnest ferry used to berth at the end of the pier. The pier remained until its demolition in 1952 - which involved it being ‘blown up’. The current rocky groyne was built in 1960.

Cottesloe Pier - postcard from early 1900s (via Photos from Beautiful buildings and cool places Perth has lost)

Many piers in Australia were used for landing supplies by ship, but the Cottesloe Pier, built in 1906, was always used as a promenade for pleasure only.

Built by the Cottesloe Roads Board, (the first wooden jetty had washed away in a storm in 1903) the pier had a bandstand, was 382 feet in length and was very popular, attracting huge crowds.

This postcard shows bathing boxes on the beach and the old Rottnest ferry used to berth at the end of the pier.

The pier remained until its demolition in 1952 - which involved it being ‘blown up’. The current rocky groyne was built in 1960.