Memories of Mosman

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Bay Street Heritage

Posted by maudlin
Streets Bay Street
Time 1939 — 1957

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

Posted by Chris Borough
Streets The Esplanade
Time 1948 — 1954

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

Posted by Jill Mercer
Streets Amaroo Crescent
Time 1960 onwards

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

Posted by Ted (Bubba) Pethebridge
Streets Esther Road
Time 1922 — 1930s

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

Posted by Jill Mercer
Streets Clifford Street
Time 1911 onwards

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

Posted by Jill Mercer
Streets Pretoria Avenue
Time 1938 onwards

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’

Posted by Helen Ekin nee Black
Streets McLeod Street, Raglan Street
Time 1930s — early 1940s

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

Posted by Rhonda Higgerson
Streets Hale Road, Mackie Lane
Time late 1940s — late 1950s

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

Posted by Les 'Tummy' Kewin
Streets Esther Road, The Esplanade
Time 1920s — 1930s

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

Posted by Pete Flanagan
Streets Awaba Street
Time 1973

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…

Ten pound pom

Posted by Eddiebhoy67
Streets Gladstone Avenue, Raglan Street
Time 1971

I came to Australia in 1970 as a ten pound immigrant. Not a Pom mind you. I am from Scotland. I was 21. I lived in various locations. Campsie. Lakemba. Newtown. Parramatta.…

Life living in Mosman

Posted by D. Cooper
Streets Prince Street, Vista Street
Time 1953 — 1970

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…

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