Terry Brown – from Sussex, England – emailed to ask if anyone remembers Whittle’s hardware store. Terry worked at this shop run by Mr Whittle and his son and really enjoyed his time there. Drop us a line or register to add your story or picture to the site!
The house in the middle #7 is ours and the one on the right is the Stevens’, #5. Note one can see some people standing outside #5 next to a stone pillar (still there) which marks our boundary and the original entrance to the house from the street. The path also is still there. The […]
My first Recollections, 1921 – 1928 I was welcomed into the world at the corner of Raglan Street and Military Road after being born at Paddington Women’s Hospital. My parents were Alfred and Ann Wylie. We lived above Davis’s Hardware Shop on Military Road, a sign on the window in gold read S.E. Davis ex-A.I.F. […]
In January, 1933, I was married at St Andrews, Wahroonga, to Dr T.A.G. Holmes, eldest son of Dr H Glennie Holmes of Mosman. After 14 months in England, we returned to Mosman and lived at 707 Military Road, where my father-in-law had his surgery (corner of Gouldsbury Street) in the heritage listed house now called […]
View of Finedon, 4 Ryrie Street, built early 1939 by architect Hedley Norman Carr, whose family lived there until 1983. Mosman Library holds a complete set of photos of this house dated circa 1983.
View west to Quakers Hat Bay and Northbridge beyond over the front wall of Finedon, 4 Ryrie Street. The house was built early 1939 by architect Hedley Norman Carr, whose family lived there until 1983. Mosman Library holds a complete set of photos of this house dated circa 1983.
I lived in Clifford Street a long time ago, and now reside in England. We as a family emigrated to Sydney 1959 and just loved the country. I worked on the post office at Mosman and remember with fondness the fellow workers, a cheerful bunch of people, some ex- service men, Jack Hurst a wonderful […]
As a child I lived at No 5 Methuen Avenue, in the 1950s & 1960s (see story about the residents in the 1950s and 1960s). My father, Dick Sautelle, worked at that time for the Orient Line and subsequently the P&O Orient Line. Through business he met a delightful Englishman called Arthur Bennett. When Mr […]
My Mosman memories involve visits to my aunt and uncle Margaret and William Gordon Cumming at 43 Myahgah Road in the 1950s. As a child from the western suburbs of Sydney it was such a joy to go to their place. It was opposite the park and the cricket oval. Beautiful and green, all painted […]
When my Dad left Australia, in command of 2/2nd Battalion A.I.F., on the Octants, 10/1/40, our family was living at ‘Nydfa’, a block of flats in Milson Road, Cremorne; but by the time the Japanese submarines entered Sydney Harbour, we were settled in 10 Clifford Street. It was to be my home for over fifty […]