Feature interview
In our third feature interview, Bruce Cormack shares memories of growing up in Lennox Street, Mosman, during the great Depression and the Second World War. He describes billy-cart rides down Mosman’s step inclines, Saturday afternoon at the Mosman Kinema and ice delivered on horse-drawn cart. He talks about wartime shortages - “[my brother] was born at 6am in Mosman, and at 9am my mother was giving me the shopping instructions and first on the list was to go and sign up for the new ration coupons” - and the thrill of seeing the Queen Mary enter Sydney Harbour in the early 1940s. more
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All Saints Hospital, Balmoral, Beauty Point, Boronia, Cave Dwellers, Church, Cinemas & Theatres, Clifton Gardens, Curlew Camp, Dairies, Friends of Bradley Bushland Reserve, Games, Gangs, Happy Land, Hospitals, Housing, Libraries, Mavis Sykes Ballet School, Midget Submarines, Mosman Library, Mosman Musical Society, Oysters, Parriwi Road, Refugees, School, Second World War, Shops & Shopping, Sirius Cove, Social Life, Spit Junction, Sports, Storms, Swimming, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Taronga Zoo, The Amphitheatre, The Depression, The Garden School, The Influenza Epidemic, The Spit, The Sunshine Club, Traffic, Trams, Woolbuyers, Work
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About the project
Since the mid-1980s Mosman Library has maintained an oral history program as part of an ongoing commitment to the documentation and preservation of the history of Mosman. The aim is to collect the recollections of those who live, work or attend school in Mosman both now and in the past. more
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