On my last day in Melbourne a few weeks ago we went to the Brighton Beach Boxes situated on Port Phillip Bay in Brighton at Dendy Street Beach.
They are delightfully bright and each one individually painted by each owner. There are 82 of these boxes located on this beach. They all retain Victorian architectural features with timber framing, weatherboards and corrugated iron roofs. They all remain the same as they were about 100 years ago. None of them have running water or electricity yet are a very sought after property with one selling recently for about $172,500 AUD.
All around the Port Phillip Bay area there are about 1,860 of these
quaint looking beach boxes. We didn’t get to see inside to wonder why they are so precious but they certainly did brighten up the surrounding bay on an otherwise not so colourful day.
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Oooh excellent, I was strolling down eagerly hoping you’d show us all of them. 🙂
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Do people live in them?
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No they’re just at the beach to keep things in for the beach and maybe some have chairs and/or beds for resting i imagine.
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Great photos. I love seeing beach huts all in a row, brightly colored and different from each other but uniform in dimensions. The price of them is ridiculous in Britain too.
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Adds beautiful colors to the beach. 🙂 Great shots!
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Oh I love these shots Karen, I must go there next time!!!
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I was so excited. There were a gazillion people there but I waited to get them as best I could sans the people. The bay is fairly ordinary but these boxes just pop, so definitely worth the time to see them 🙂
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That sounds like fun! I found some in the UK but it was a fairly miserable day. Your colours just pop in these photos.
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Thanks Desley. I know there is a beach box with your name on it, in the colours you love, there! 🙂
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LOL yes I spotted one in your feature image 🙂 💕💕
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haha thought you might have… did it have pink in it ? 🙂
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Yep it’s pink with yellow/orange stripes. Gorgeous!!
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Lovely colours, but really, the price for an old shed is ridiculous!
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I know right, all for a piece of history… Id rather spend it on something more practical 🙂
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Yes, my mortgage would like some of that price, then I would be happy, happy.
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Crazy.. obviously people that have a beautiful home mortgage free and want that extra special something – a large expensive box???!!!! 🙂
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Wonder what they keep in it, plastic buckets for sandcastle making?, the extra pair of thongs, perhaps the beachtowels that they got from grandma for their “teen” christmas?
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would love to have had a peak inside to see whats the in thing in beach boxes 🙂
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I think the record for one of these was over $200,000, probably the most expensive real estate in Melbourne. I think all the tourists would drive me mad if I had one. You got a great mix of them, and not too many people, considering how many were there.
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I couldnt remember at the time you did say that, so looked it up and found one for the price I had down. Crazy huh!
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Beautiful pictures!
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Thanks very much Diane 🙂
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I love the fantastic colours in these bathing boxes – they remind me of a by- gone era 😊 They are hard to photograph without people!
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Very hard as there were quite a few there. I would give them all the death stare and they dispersed lol! 🙂
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Way to go! I’ll have to remember that 😊
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How very colourful!
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Yes so many colours but somehow it works 🙂
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Reblogged this on Covey View and commented:
kazg10 gives us an opportunity to see the quaint, beautifully painted Brighton Beach Boxes.
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Thanks Meredith 🙂
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I love beach huts. The ones in England are phenomenally expensive for what they are.
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I know its ridiculous isn’t it. I didn’t get to see the ones at Brighton in the UK… all I found were white ones. They must have been hiding elsewhere…
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The ones in Brighton in the UK are in Hove which is west of the Brighton seafront. The famous colourful ones are in Southwald in Suffolk.
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Oh thanks so much. Wished I had of realised that before I went last time, I guess google would have put me straight.. I just presumed… So on my bucket list for next time 🙂
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