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Hopetoun Avenue, more recolletions
On the whole, the childhood and teenage years of my friend, Dianne and I, were fairly quiet, predictable and safe, growing up in Hopetoun Avenue. Because of that, some incidents have stood…
Growing up in Hopetoun Avenue
Growing up in Hopetoun Avenue, Chinamans Beach was a very important place for my friend and I. This veritable paradise, provided we local children with an exciting, wild and ever changing playground,…
Miss Langley’s Kindergarten
Does anyone remember Miss Langley’s kindergarten on the corner of Fairfax Road and Kirkoswald Avenue? Three in our family went there from about 1954 to 1958. It was an old timber house…
Mulberry tree
In the 1940’s and 1950’s, on the south east corner of the intersection of Spit Road and Warringah Road stood a large Federation house, set well back from Spit Road. Close to…
MOSMAN DOMESTIC SCIENCE SCHOOL – Does anyone have a photograph?
Dear Mosman Memories group, I am desperately trying to search for a photograph of MOSMAN DOMESTIC SCIENCE SCHOOL from the 1930s or 1940s. Could you please email me if you can help?…
My childhood home
I grew up in a house on the corner of Stanton Road and Tivoli Street. When Mum and Dad bought it in about 1954 it was in a very run down state…
KraMar Private Hotel
KraMar was a very well respected private hotel during the 1950s and 60s. They had links to the Immigration Department and had many “Ten Pound Poms” live at KraMar as they arrived…
David Dansie, a few thoughts on Musgrave Street and his Mosman
A few recollections of growing up at 23 Musgrave Street in Mosman in the early to mid1960s’ That weatherboard house has long since gone and has been replaced by two dwellings. My…
Beauty Point
Beauty Point Estate I was born in Mosman: Lauriston Private Hospital, which was at 4 Mandalong Road, near the fire station. In 1939, Australia was clawing its way back from The Depression…
SIRIUS AVENUE 1930 – 1942
sirius_ave_1b Mosman Infants School, 2nd class, David Clegg, Backrow, 4th from left alongside his friend Takahashi. Photographer unknown, 1938 My first memory of Sirius Avenue is of a hill rising from what…