No. 1 – Dr “Doc” Herbert Evatt resided in the top house with a tennis court below. The Wilsons bought this in the 1960s, subdivided and built on the tennis court. That house is now 1A Methuen Avenue. The Wilsons sold (No. 1) to Beresord Bluett (previously of Kahibah Road). No. 1a – Built in […]
Post 1979 and to date with second storey addition.
Original condition as purchased in 1966.
This photograph is part of a collection donated to Mosman Council in the 1950s by former Mayor, and historian, Dalton “Jack” Carroll. It is now held in the Mosman Library Local Studies Collection.
This photograph is part of a collection donated to Mosman Council in the 1950s by former Mayor, and historian, Dalton “Jack” Carroll. It is now held in the Mosman Library Local Studies Collection.
In 1933 my parents, Ralph and Frieda Avison, my grandmother and I moved from Hunters Hill to 30 Clanalpine Street, a street named after an alderman of Mosman’s first Council, Archibald Macalpine. Our new home was a rambling slate-roofed house standing on a double block of neglected garden. It had been empty for months. The […]
Murray Block, who contributed a story about Awaba Street, is interviewed in The Mosman Daily this week. MURRAY Block believes that everyone has a story to tell – and a duty to tell it before they die. “We have lost so many characters in this area whose stories have died with them,’‘ Mr Block said. […]
Me and my dad in the front garden.
Windward Avenue was an unnamed dirt track with a handful of houses until the early to mid 1950s. When the decision was made by Council to seal the road and give it a name, Nance Meyers as the oldest resident was invited to name it. She chose the name Windward Avenue, mistakenly believing it meant […]
Hugh Beeson, affectionately called Poppa, with his grand-daughters Susan and Janis on the front steps in matching “Sunday best” clothes.