Balmoral
- Barbara Williams - interviewed by Gerald Christmas, 10 May 2006
Subject: The Amphitheatre, Balmoral
Barbara Williams. I remember going to that theatre – the one for the coming of Christ. The man who ran The Tivoli had something to do with it.
Gerald Christmas. D… - Bertha Blackman - interviewed by Eve Klein, 15 July 2002
Subject: Balmoral, Shops & Shopping
Eve Klein. So we’re talking about 1922/24. What sort of childhood did you have?
Bertha Blackman. It was happy because there were so many children. Esther Road had… - Bertha Blackman - interviewed by Eve Klein, 15 July 2002
Subject: Balmoral
Eve Klein. Where did they go fishing?
Bertha Blackman. Down at Balmoral where the Peggy’s Rocks are .. well the Peggy’s Rocks had big slits in them, so you dropped… - Clifton Haynes - interviewed by Zoe Dobson, 24 February 2004
Subject: The Amphitheatre, Balmoral
Clifton Haynes. I remember the Amphitheatre well as a child. I remember when it was built and I have a picture of that. It was built by the Theosophists and these pe… - Dr and Mrs Dwyer - interviewed by Eve Klein, 30 November 2000
Subject: The Amphitheatre, Balmoral
Eve Klein. You were talking about the Amphitheatre; where was that located?
Mrs. Dwyer. At the northern end of Balmoral until it was replaced, post-war with that… - Gretchen Dechert - interviewed by Zoe Dobson, 15 August 2005
Subject: Balmoral, Cave Dwellers
Gretchen Dechert. Yes I went to Balmoral a lot, that’s where I learnt to swim. When I was a little girl my father threw me in off the end of the wharf and dived in a… - Gretchen Dechert - interviewed by Zoe Dobson, 15 August 2005
Subject: The Amphitheatre, Balmoral
Gretchen Dechert. Oh yes, and I remember the Star of the East, the Amphitheatre. That was when Christ was to walk through the Heads. We were overseas so I didn’t see… - John Schenker - interviewed by Eve Klein, 13 December 2000
Subject: Balmoral, Swimming
Eve Klein. What was the swimming instruction like?
John Schenker. That was outside school, it had nothing to do with school.
Eve Klein. You didn’t go swimming… - John Steel - interviewed by Rosemary Christmas, 10 May 2000
Subject: Balmoral, Second World War
John Steel. Well this is really during the war years. I remember, we were talking about Balmoral beach earlier on. I remember Balmoral was completely wired against t… - John Wilmot Roberts - interviewed by Trish Levido, 15 December 2005
Subject: Balmoral, Shops & Shopping
John Roberts. They were down at Balmoral, Mrs Tilly’s and then later, on the corner of Mandolong Road and The Esplanade Mr Ford set up a business there, then furthe… - John Wilmot Roberts - interviewed by Trish Levido, 15 December 2005
Subject: The Amphitheatre, Balmoral
John Roberts. Yes, quaint old days and there’s something documented in books about Balmoral – the Amphitheatre played a small part in my youth.
After the Theosoph… - Margaret Ewart and Garland Churcher - interviewed by Eve Klein, 27 December 2000
Subject: Balmoral
Margaret Ewart. Well it was our beautiful sand dunes. To spoil it with that cement structure was shocking. The same as we hated when they built that monstrosity ther…
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