Mosman Voices - oral histories online

Taronga Zoo

  • Betty Alexander - interviewed by Brian Leckey, 6 February 1992
    Subject: Taronga Zoo
    Betty Alexander. …the war had finished. During that time, you got mixed up with charities. You were always doing something for somebody, but it was a very awful time…
  • Brian Woolley - interviewed by Sandra Blamey, 16 May 2001
    Subject: Taronga Zoo
    Brian Woolley. I suppose we used to go to the Zoo, and we had rides on the elephants. They had big things on the top of them and you walked up on the elephant and yo…
  • 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…
  • Jean Hill - interviewed by Rosemary Christmas, 14 April 2003
    Subject: Taronga Zoo
    Rosemary Christmas. Would you drive into the city? Jean Hill. No, we went by the Zoo ferry, which I’m very fond of actually having travelled on it for years. My fa…