58 Almora Street
This photo of Mylah Crosbie with son Michael and daughter Lee was taken around 1955 at 58 Almora Street Mosman. We had a beautiful view from the top of the hill to Balmoral.
This photo of Mylah Crosbie with son Michael and daughter Lee was taken around 1955 at 58 Almora Street Mosman. We had a beautiful view from the top of the hill to Balmoral.
Amaroo Crescent existed in name only in the early 1960s. Dennis and Joan Georgeson sold the bottom of their property in Pretoria Avenue to give access. Most of the houses were built in the 1960s when the Sydney School of Architecture was popular. This style reacted against modernism and the architecture was related to the […]
Lynda Macalpine of Auckland, New Zealand writes: Various members of my husband’s family – Macalpine – have lived in Mosman since about 1878. Archibald Macalpine was an alderman on the first Mosman Council, and Clanalpine St, Mosman, was named in his honour. He married Annie Reed, also from a local family. There are three houses […]
Mulligan family enjoying afternoon tea in the garden of ‘Sebrof’.
The house it is no longer. Certainly, my memories, as a boy rest there from the period of early sixties. The photo precedes this time, my grandmother Ettie Lynch (nee Buckingham) is on the far right. My father was raised at the house during the 1930s. I remember the busy activity of Military Road at […]
My family moved from North Sydney to Mosman’s Esther Road, Balmoral in about 1922, when I was four years old. Mosman was a wonderful place to move to, especially Balmoral, a very natural place with beautiful beaches, sand dunes, pines, fig trees and small lagoons. There was also a beautiful ‘island’ and Peggy’s Rocks, both […]
In 1911 my grandparents, James and Martha Mulligan, sold their country property “Woodford”, near Armidale, NSW. Their son had died of pneumonia aged 6 and as the other children were all girls, and at the time it was not considered an option for women to run a property, they came to Mosman.
In the late 1930s my parents, Ian and Edith Kitson, built a house on a battleaxe block of land at 22 Pretoria Avenue, George’s Heights. My mother designed the house and her architect brother-in-law, Harold Peach, drew up the plans. Building materials were scarce and my mother was unable to have the glass bricks, green […]
Mosman was not immune to the pneumonic influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918, taking with it more casualties than World War I. The epidemic reached Australia in 1919. This photograph shows masked members of the Mulligan family, (L –R) Martha Mulligan holding baby James, Beatrice Mulligan, Maggie Hamilton (household help), in front Beryl […]