Mosman Voices - oral histories online

Games

  • Betty Kennard - interviewed by Eve Klein, 5 March 2001
    Subject: The Depression, Games
    Betty Kennard. Yes it was. We were quite comfortable, we had help in the house and for some of the time we had a car. That was before The Depression. There were othe…
  • Brian Woolley - interviewed by Sandra Blamey, 16 May 2001
    Subject: Games
    Sandra Blamey. Did you fish? Brian Woolley. No. I was never a fisherman person. None of us seemed to do that really. The main thing was our billy-carts and push-bi…
  • Dr and Mrs Dwyer - interviewed by Eve Klein, 30 November 2000
    Subject: Taronga Zoo, Games
    Dr. Dwyer. I was born in Mosman in Simpson Street, near Whiting Beach Road. at the bottom end of the Zoo. My recall was, as a young boy – a young fellow just getting…
  • Estelle Clancy - interviewed by Sandra Blamey, 21 March 2001
    Subject: Games
    Estelle Clancy. We did well, but then we didn’t know anything else either. If you got a plain biscuit, you were more than happy. I can remember when Kellogg’s Cornfl…
  • Jean Hill - interviewed by Rosemary Christmas, 14 April 2003
    Subject: Games
    Rosemary Christmas. So you three girls would play games? Jean Hill. We played a lot of tennis because people had courts. I started tennis first at St Hilda’s when…
  • John Dansie - interviewed by Susan Kelly, 7 March 2002
    Subject: Games, Sirius Cove
    Susan Kelly. Can you tell me about some of your early childhood experiences, using this area as a playground and what you remember? John Dansie. Yes this headland…
  • John Dansie - interviewed by Susan Kelly, 7 March 2002
    Subject: Games, Sirius Cove
    John Dansie. In the lower part of the Curraghbeena Park, or the bottom bush, as we used to call it, between the road and the high water mark, there is one area where…
  • John Suhan - interviewed by Trish Levido, 27 July 1981
    Subject: Games
    Trish Levido. What did you do growing up in Mosman? What would you say were the highlights? John Suhan. I was one of those people who had a crack at everything, no…
  • John Suhan - interviewed by Trish Levido, 27 July 1981
    Subject: Games, Sirius Cove
    Trish Levido. What would you say that you played with most? John Suhan. I was very lucky living in Clanalpine Street, within 100 yards it surrounded Sirius Cove, w…