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Cobbittee capers
In January, 1933, I was married at St Andrews, Wahroonga, to Dr T.A.G. Holmes, eldest son of Dr H Glennie Holmes of Mosman. After 14 months in England, we returned to Mosman…
Just so Nice
I lived in Clifford Street a long time ago, and now reside in England. We as a family emigrated to Sydney 1959 and just loved the country. I worked on the post…
Dick’s Hotel & Obelisk Beach Family Picnics
As a child I lived at No 5 Methuen Avenue, in the 1950s & 1960s (see story about the residents in the 1950s and 1960s). My father, Dick Sautelle, worked at that…
My Aunt & Uncle’s place
My Mosman memories involve visits to my aunt and uncle Margaret and William Gordon Cumming at 43 Myahgah Road in the 1950s. As a child from the western suburbs of Sydney it…
My neighbours and our wonderful street
When my Dad left Australia, in command of 2/2nd Battalion A.I.F., on the Octants, 10/1/40, our family was living at ‘Nydfa’, a block of flats in Milson Road, Cremorne; but by the…
Methuen Avenue residents 1950s & 1960s
No. 1 – Dr “Doc” Herbert Evatt resided in the top house with a tennis court below. The Wilsons bought this in the 1960s, subdivided and built on the tennis court. That…
Childhood memories from Awaba Street
My first home as a baby was in Awaba Street – it was also my last in Sydney before moving to UK in the late 80’s. Fond memories of visiting my grandparents…
A marvellous place for childhood
In 1933 my parents, Ralph and Frieda Avison, my grandmother and I moved from Hunters Hill to 30 Clanalpine Street, a street named after an alderman of Mosman’s first Council, Archibald Macalpine.…
Block’s Block
The possibility of owning our own home was uppermost in our minds. A couple of months after our wedding we began house hunting. We began to check the properties for sale in…
Block’s Block
Breda and I married in 1965 shortly after she joined me from the USA. At first we shared a flat in Spruson Street, Neutral Bay. This was a convenient and happy enough…