My Dad grew up in 52 Cabramatta Road. His Mum and Dad moved there in the 30s and lived there until grandpa died in 1967. I remember going there for holidays and staying with Nana and I loved to look in Huckell’s window. Nana used to be a member of the Paling St Methodist Church […]
Just north of St. Clements C of E Church, was a wide bitumen path which in those days was the principle entrance to Mosman Church of England Preparatory School. There was a tennis court behind the church. Down a slope was the main building (dating from 1904) which contained the whole school. There was an […]
The shops that I recall in Spit Road: West side from south to north (some may be missing or misplaced) Military Road – Greengrocer – Cake Shop – Newsagent – General Clothes store / Manchester – Menswear then Coles (at the tram stop)- Ladies Dress shop – Greengrocer – Milk Bar (with a long counter […]
In the days when I was a member of the 1st Balmoral Cubs and Scouts , I used to visit a large tearoom / milk bar on the corner of The Esplanade and Botanic Road. It had a wide selection of sweets which could be bought individually. They also sold one penny ice cream cones. […]
In 1946, I joined the 1st Balmoral Scouts as a Cub Scout. The meeting hut was a primative affair. The little timber room had an east veranda and was situated on the grass on the west side of The Esplanade, opposite the swimming baths. The tram lines were behind the building. We played on the […]
Mosman’s street names remember – among other things – an artist who went on to become marine painter to Queen Victoria, a member of the first Australian cricket team to go abroad (who bowled with some success at Lords, 1878) and the New Zealand-born inventor of the metal boot-lace. These stories come down to us […]
We lived in The Grove from 1969 until 1994, after ‘emigrating” from Melbourne where we had lived all our lives until then. When we downsized/rightsized after the children left home, we remained in Mosman, in Clanalpine Street. We jocularly said we had gone over the hill, but only geographically. During the 25 year period in […]
ROADS AND STREETS ABERCROMBIE STREET – Abercrombie Street was named after Police Sergeant Abercrombie whose district from North Sydney extended to Ryde in one direction and Mosman, Manly and Pittwater in the other. After he had fined a man 5/- for not having his name on his dray, Abercrombie was erased and another name given […]
This photo comes from from Anne Krone who lived in 48 Somerset Street, Mosman in her early years. She is doing her family history on the Carmody and Macdonald families. In this image there is a group of 11 men. The man in the front row on the right is John Hugh MacDonald, his hat […]
I was born in 1943 at St Monans Hospital – Cremorne? I went to Sunday School at the Congregational church in Belmont Road – now Uniting? To primary school at [then] SCEGGS Redlands. My mother and I lived in Central Ave [my RAAF father was posted missing WW2 – still missing]. There was a milk […]