1960s: Work was under way in the early 1960s on a new St George Leagues Club on Princes Highway at Carlton.
Dubbed the Taj Mahal because of the expanses of white marble and overall opulence, the building was opened on July 20, 1963.
The original leagues club, which opened in 1953, was at the corner of Princes Highway and Rocky Point Road, Kogarah, where St Patrick’s Green retirement village now stands.
1970s: Mothers at Engadine carrying red flags halted traffic on Princes Highway in 1972 while campaigning for a pedestrian crossing for schoolchildren.
About 60 children lived on the eastern side of the highway and mothers organised a roster to shepherd them across the highway before and after school.
1980s: Thousands attended the official opening by Premier Nick Greiner of the $4 million Cronulla Bicentennial Plaza in February, 1989.
However, C Riding councillor Don Carter protested it was at the expense of the “neglected” Menai and Engadine areas.
1990s: Watched by Hansie Cronje, Glenn McGrath gave his all in the 1994 Test against South Africa at the SCG.
The visitors won by five runs and McGrath, who moved to the shire from Naromine in 1992 and made his Test debut in 1993, went on to become one of Australia’s greatest cricketers.
2000s: Groynes were installed along Lady Robinsons Beach in two stages, in 1997 and 2005, to counter sand erosion.
A research study in 2011 found, in many areas, the structures had succeeded at creating a wider beachfront, but there were several areas where erosion or gradual sand increase was taking place.
In 2012, Botany Bay Planning and Protection Council president Bernie Clarke said the time groynes would ‘‘create more problems because [this system] transfers the energy to different areas’’ and would ‘‘deflect the energy to somewhere else’’.