Musgrave Street, Mosman, 1960s My street. Our street. The street where I grew up. My grandparent’s street. The street where my best friend lived. These statements have a personal significance for many of us, as the place where we grew up provided our first sense of place and of community. It is often the beginning […]
aerial view of Mosman – image courtesy gm photographics Mosman is located on the northern shores of Sydney Harbour, in New South Wales, Australia. The suburb is approximately 10km by road from the central business district of the city of Sydney. Mosman – which includes Balmoral, The Spit and Clifton Gardens – has an area […]
Spit Junction, 1921 Prior to European settlement, over 3,000 years ago, Mosman was home to the Borogegal and Gamaraigal clans, evidence of which can be seen in the rock shelters, paintings, carvings and middens in the area. European settlement began with a few small farms and the first recorded European settler was Thomas O’Neil at […]
Local histories Mosman Faces ‘Mosman Faces’ is a visual history of Mosman through filmed interviews and related materials from personal collections and the Mosman Local Studies Collection. Mosman Voices ‘Mosman Voices’ features extracts from oral history interviews held in the Library’s archives Excerpts are defined by a subject – such as the Second World War, […]
The subject of this site is the streets and roads of Mosman and any matter, person, event or site relating to this topic. The site is managed by Mosman Library, which is a service of Mosman Council. Contributions This site is moderated by Mosman Library. Stories, photographs and comments are posted, edited or removed at […]
My life began on 10 October 1924, when I was born in 129 Ourimbah Road Mosman (a room which I slept in until 1988), to my parents Mr & Mrs William Charles Lake. I was the youngest of quite a large family, being seven children, five more girls and one boy only. He was my […]
Houseboat, The Spit after it had been altered and where Dennis lived in 1949. Read Dennis Francis’ Memories of Mosman.
Dennis on his way to Malvern school. Read Dennis Francis’ Memories of Mosman.
Malvern Kindergarden Christmas Party July 1947 Houseboat at Fisher Bay, The Spit We lived on a houseboat for a while at Fisher Bay, The Spit. I was seven then and Mum cooked on Primus’s and we generated our own electricity; Dad was a commercial fisherman at the time. Sometimes we walked around the bush track […]
A question from Nina: In 1964 I lived in a large guest house, which had multiple rooms, and verandahs which looked over towards Garden Island. I dont recall the owners, but they had a daughter Theresa. Behind this guest house, at the end of the road, was a large sunken tennis court. Can anyone assist […]