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Bay Street Heritage
Bay Street, 1947 Bay Street, Beauty Point I believe that Bay Street for a small child was probably one of Best Streets in Mosman for offering an Insight into the Heritage of…
Balmoral – a Village
Balmoral was a self-contained village in the 1950’s. From the south my world started at the Naval Depot pool (used by the Balmoral Swimming Club after the original Balmoral Baths were washed…
Amaroo Crescent
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…
Mosman during the 30s and Depression Years
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…
Memories of “Sebrof” 14 Clifford St
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,…
Memories of “The Hut” 22 Pretoria Avenue
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…
Living in ‘Duncraggan’
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…
Hawkers came down Mackie Lane
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…
Balmoral Memories
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…
113 Awaba Street
hi recently after my mum died, we found an old case that contained letter and pictures of her uncle and aunt, ernest and lucy swindells who lived at 113 awaba street. they…