BICKER, BERTHA, AND THREE FRIENDS ON ROCKINGHAM PIER

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c. 1924

Overview

B/W copy print. Bertha Bicker (between two men) and three friends on Rockingham Pier Line of four people, two men and two women, standing on a wooden pier. On the left is a young woman dressed in a dark 2 piece bathing suit. The bathers have short sleeves, are thigh length and have a light coloured trimming around the edges. The woman is also wearing a dark scarf or close fitting hat and dark pointed low-heeled strap shoes. Next to her is a man in a 3-piece suit, white shirt with short stand-up collar, tie, light coloured felt (?) hat with lighter band around crown, and dark shoes or boots. The woman third from the left is wearing a 2-piece bathing suit which has no sleeves, a light vest, skirt and shorts, and darker trim around the neck, sleeves and at the waist. This bathing suit comes to the knees. The woman is wearing a light-coloured scarf or close-fitting hat, and light-coloured sandshoes. On the right is a young man in dark trousers, braces, white collarless long sleeved shirt, and no shoesThe pier appears to be wide and no ocean or beach are visible. There is a power pole in the background, some trees and what appears to be a woman pushing a pram.

Historical information

Photographer, Norman Bicker came from Hull, UK to Sydney then to Western Austalia in 1923 to set up branch of Reckitt's . Headquarters, Lionel Samson & Sons Building Cliff St Fremantle. Lived 7 Bindaring Pde 1923-35. (1941?) Opened Leonard's Shoe Store 1953, Stirling Highway Mosman Park. Married to Bertha in 1914 or 1915 in England. Father of Aubrey and Ray.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-28--98-665-

Item type

Photographs

Themes

People

Social History

Year

c. 1924

Claremont Museum

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