Memories of Mosman
Browse memories from streets across Mosman. Click a tile to read the full story.
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…
1 Ryries Parade
I think I was about 10 years old when we moved into what was I think was number 1 Ryries Parade. I say ‘I think’ because the number 1 was on our…
Down Windward Avenue
Windward Avenue was an unnamed dirt track with a handful of houses until the early to mid 1950s. When the decision was made by Council to seal the road and give it…
Mitchell Road memories
Mitchell Road Mosman was the centre of my early childhood universe in the 1950’s. We lived with my maternal Grandparents in Mitchell Road when I was born. Although my family moved away…
Neat hedges and little old ladies
My earliest memories of Clifford Street are of neat hedges and little old ladies. However, at No. 11 where I lived we had neither a neat hedge nor an old lady. Just…
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