History Timeline 1802 - 1851
1802
Kulin clans inhabit a large part of Central Victoria.
1803
Col David Collins and 460 people settle briefly at Sullivan Bay.
William Buckley first European to walk around Port Phillip Bay.
1835
John Batman finds a spot suitable for a village and negotiates a treaty.
1836
The village is named Melbourne by Governor Richard Bourke.
1840
NSW Government issues permits for lime kilns to be built on foreshore at Point Nepean.
In England Henry Dendy purchases special survey sight unseen.
1841
Dendy arrives in Melbourne and takes up Brighton Estate.
1851
Colony of Victoria formed just before discovery of gold.
History Timeline 1861 - 1887
1861
Railway line Flinders Street to Brighton Beach opened.
1862
First recorded Brighton bathing box dispute recorded.
1863
Brighton Beach Baths [saltwater] opened.
1873
Beach Road (the Esplanade) created in Brighton.
1875
Brighton Sailing Club formed.
Nicholas Were offered for sale land from the Esplanade to Dendy Street Beach high water mark, local Committee lodged an injunction, Supreme Court finds title must allow for a public road, matter settled out of Court.
1877
Brighton Land Vesting Act 1877 transfers Brighton Beach Reserve from the Crown to the Borough of Brighton.
1881
Green Point formal gardens created.
1882
Middle Brighton Baths [saltwater] opened.
1887
Railway line extended from Brighton Beach to Sandringham.
History Timeline 1906 - 1954
1906
Electric railway tram line opened from St Kilda to Brighton Beach via Esplanade.
1910
Brighton Beach residential and bathing box construction peaks.
1918
Brighton cyclone destroys structures north and south of Green Point.
1919
City of Brighton formed.
1923
Brighton Life Saving Club (BLSC) formed and clubhouse built on Dendy Street Beach.
1933
Dendy Street Beach kiosk built next to BLSC clubhouse.
1934
All scattered Brighton bathing boxes removed or relocated to Dendy Street Beach to enable building of a bluestone foreshore promenade from Port Melbourne during the Great Depression.
Brighton bathing boxes realigned.
1951
City of Brighton bathing box audit triggers instructions to Licensees 'fix them or else.'
1954
Brighton Bathing Box Association becomes active.
History Timeline 1957 - 1979
1957
City of Brighton motion to remove bathing boxes defeated.
BLSC clubhouse destroyed by fire.
Closure of Brighton Beach railway tram commences.
1958
City of Brighton acknowledges increasing degradation of beaches.
1960
City of Sandringham commences removal of foreshore structures.
New and relocated BLSC clubhouse opened absorbing North Road Life Saving Club.
1963
Brighton Historical Society formed.
1966
Port Phillip Authority Act 1966.
1967
Guy Boyd and others form Brighton Foreshore Protection Committee.
1970
Port Phillip Conservation Council formed.
1978
Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978.
1979
Demolition of Brighton Beach Baths.
History Timeline 1982 - 1996
1982-83
Renourishment of Middle Brighton and Dendy Street Beaches.
1985
Report on historical and architectural significance of bathing boxes, boatsheds and similar structures prepared for the Minister for Planning and Environment.
1986
Port Phillip Authority disbanded.
1987
Planning and Environment Act 1987.
1988
Local Government Act 1989.
1994
Three Commissioners appointed to oversee formation of Bayside City Council as part of Local Government amalgamations.
1995
Coastal Management Act 1995.
Heritage Act 1995.
1996
Draft Standards for Bathing Box & Boatshed Construction prepared.
CSIRO Port Phillip Bay Environmental Study Final Report.
History Timeline 1997 - 2002
1997
Bayside City Council first election.
Bayside Coastal Strategy adopted.
Victorian Coastal Strategy #1.
1998
Bayside Coastal Art Trail opens.
2000
Draft Bathing Box and Boatshed Policy & Management Guidelines prepared by Department of Sustainability and Environment.
Bayside Planning Scheme adds Brighton bathing boxes within a Heritage Overlay.
2001
Bayside Tourism Strategy adopted.
2002
Victorian Coastal Strategy #2.
