Mosman Faces is about people and places, a place to share your stories of Mosman. In this first series of Mosman Faces ten people tell stories that have shaped the Mosman community. The stories create a visual history of Mosman through film and through images from Mosman Library’s Local Studies collection. We aim to build […]
Internal photo of my grandparent’s shop at 189 Ourimbah Rd, Mosman in 1970. That’s my grandfather, Arthur Booth in the background and my aunt. Purchased in 1960 and closed in 1971 after the clearways imposed in Ourimbah Rd, fairly much ruined the business. My father, T.O. Booth also worked here with his brother Arthur D […]
This is the shop of of my grandparents, Arthur & Emile Booth (Lower) and the adjacent shops with beauty salon near the BP service station. Purchased in 1960 and closed in 1971 after the clearways imposed in Ourimbah Rd, fairly much ruined the business. My father, T.O. Booth also worked here with his brother Arthur […]
This is the shop of of my grandparents, Arthur & Emile Booth. Purchased in 1960 and closed in 1971 after the clearways imposed in Ourimbah Rd, fairly much ruined the business. My father, T.O. Booth also worked here with his brother Arthur D Booth Jr. I have some very early memories looking up at the […]
Photo taken by T.O. Booth (my father) in 1948. My Grandmother and father and uncles lived at 65 Rangers Avenue during the war while my grandfather served in New Guinea. They also lived there just before 1950 and this photo was taken from the roof which was easily accessible from the back of the house. […]
Although I was born close to Mosman (on the Cremorne side of Holt Ave, at the demolished St Monans Pte Hosp) my family soon moved back to the bush as my Dad feared a global nuclear war. He was in the Reserves at the time… However, as you may already know, thermal global war did […]
I found this old photo in my grandmother’s collection, and I believe it dates back to the 1940s or early 1950s. I can remember how exotic the floral clock seemed to be when I was a child. Years later as schoolboys we sneaked into the zoo over a wall where the bisons used to be, […]
The postman at the bottom of Cyprian Street before continuing on into McLean Crescent. They used to criss-cross the street on the way down, getting both sides of the street delivered, in the hope that someone would give them a lift back up to Parriwi Road. That blue MGB belonged to a fellow named Williamson, […]
I spent my young years from 1966 untill 1975 around the mosman area. We lived in a number of streets, Earle St., Clifford St, Wunda Road, Vista St, and Raglan Street. My earliest memories of Mosman are of Balmoral Beach and the fun we used to have their as kids. The long trail of Raglan […]
Grandmother and Uncle in front of our house (semi on right). Ex Army BSA bike. The Greenhalgh family lived in this house from late 1951 to early 60’s. Foreground is the photographer’s mother Aimee Ethel Fullalove (nee Johnson) and her son-in-law Allan Pearce (both from Alambie Heights).