How lucky were my family to live in a portion of the beautiful mansion in McLeod Street, Mosman during the 1930s and early 1940s. We had lived in 101 Raglan Street, and then moved to ‘Duncraggan’ to the larger section which had been divided into four flats. Ours had the original entrance and the lovely […]
Although our home address was 23 Hale Road we had this lovely back entrance which wound around the back of the Ice Works into Lang Street and Military Road. I don’t remember being aware of the name until the Council erected a street sign in the fifties. Mackie Lane was just a play ground where […]
For my name and memory, I leave it to men’s charitable speeches and to foreign nations, and the next ages. Frances Bacon 1561 – 1626. My memories of Balmoral, Mosman I was born in a little country town called Pericoe near the Victorian border. The Kewin Family moved to Balmoral in Mosman when I was […]
First Port Jackson Sea Scout Troop at the Fairfax Challenge, Clifton Gardens Army Water Base.
We moved from Rose Bay to Vista Street when I was a baby. There I spent my early years. After that we moved to Prince Street. I remember riding my dinky from Vista Street to Prince Street along Short Street when I was 3 years of age. Our ‘new’ house was a very old miners’ […]
Clifton Gardens, 1909. Courtesy State Library of NSW. My recollections of Clifton Gardens start soon after World War Two ended. My father had survived the war with the famous Sixth division from Sept 1939 through to 1945 campaigns in the Middle East, Greece, Crete and New Guinea. He had now come home to the old […]
Photo of Sam and my grandaughter Nicole.
View of the sandstone wall at 16 Redan Street. The wall was built in the late 1800s and ran from Redan Street along to Almora.
View of 16 Redan Street – front of the house – in the 1980s.
View from the roof at 16 Redan Street in the late 1960s.