Description: Mosman Voices provides access to oral history interviews about the Sydney suburb of Mosman. The interviews are with Mosman residents past and present, with topics covering places, sites and events within the Mosman Local Government Area.
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Noreen Powell was born and grew up in Mosman, the daughter of Dalton "Jack" Carroll. Jack Carroll was a significant member of the Mosman community, serving as an alderman, Mayor on Mosman Council and amateur historian. In this interview Noreen tells of life growing up on Wyargine Road overlooking Balmoral beach, of billeting English servicemen at home during World War 2 and the family business, P.Leahy's Real Estate Agency, which still exists today. When she married she continued to live in Mosman and she r
All Saints Hospital , Armitage family , Balmoral , Beauty Point , Boat building , Boronia , Bradleys Head Road , Business , Carroll Family , Cave Dwellers , Chinaman's Beach , Church , Cinemas & Theatres , Clifton Gardens , Clothes , Costume design , Curlew Camp , Dairies , Enemy aliens , Entertainment , Ferries , First World War , Fishing , Friends of Bradley Bushland Reserve , Games , Gangs , Happy Land , Hospitals , Housing , Libraries , Mack family , Mavis Sykes Ballet School , Midget Submarines , Milit
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