 THE young man facing the camera is the brother of Club member GWYNNE PENNYCUICK, who spotted him in an historical photograph in the previous edition.
Captain Cook Bridge, which links Rocky and Taren points, was officially opened on Saturday, May 29, 1965 after the Pennycuick family had witnessed its construction from their Riverside Drive home at Sans Souci.
Matthew Pennycuick was 15 when a The Sunday Telegraph photographer captured him as part of history.
"We watched it get built," said his sister, Gwynne, 45.
"It's one of my earliest memories. I remember just parts of watching this thing get built".
"My two youngest brothers both marched across the bridge on the day it was opened with the local Sans Souci Cubs and Scouts. I was there with my mother and we apparently walked up to the top and then turned around and came back.
"Seeing the photo of himself all those years ago brought back fond memories for Matthew, now a truck driver living in Armidale".
"I remember the bridge getting built but I don't remember anything about the day," said the father of two.
"I walked into my parents' place at Wauchope and there was the article in all its glory for me to read. I did realise myself after I had a little bit of a look at it".
"We lived right on the water so we had access to the beach and I became involved in sailing through different people and I'm still a member of St George Sailing Club."
Ms Pennycuick said the man standing with his back to the camera in the right corner photographing the old punt could be her father.
"I remember travelling across on the punt maybe to visit relatives who lived just over at Caringbah behind the old drive-in theatre or to go to Kurnell for the day - as people used to do," she said.
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