Mosman Voices - oral histories online

Sirius Cove

  • Bruce Cormack - interviewed by Eve Klein, 4 December 2000
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    Bruce Cormack. I spent a lot of time in the Mosman/Mosman. When we came back in 1942 – back to Mosman from Parkes, we were in Rickard Avenue, and there was a back g…
  • Jill Edwards - interviewed by Gerard Christmas, 28 August 2002
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    Sirius Cove and how it has changed, because it was a dump and there was a big storm water pipe that ran right down beside the track. ‘We’ll meet you down at the pipe…
  • John Dansie - interviewed by Susan Kelly, 7 March 2002
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    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
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    John Dansie. As I’ve told you Sue, in the park there are some old sandstone steps. There are two sections – the bush or the park – there’s three and a half acres the…
  • John Dansie - interviewed by Susan Kelly, 7 March 2002
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    Susan Kelly. How do you remember the head of Sirius Cove yourself? John Dansie. It was a rubbish tip where all sorts of rubbish were dumped. In those days bricks,…
  • John Dansie - interviewed by Susan Kelly, 7 March 2002
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    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 Dansie - interviewed by Susan Kelly, 7th March 2002
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    Citizen of the Year for 2014 John Dansie is a true Mosmanite. Born in the local Mena Hospital he shares some wonderful memories of living and growing up in the pictu…
  • John Suhan - interviewed by Trish Levido, 27 July 1981
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    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…
  • Patricia Beaumont - interviewed by Rosemary Christmas, 28 March 2001
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    Rosemary Christmas. When you were a girl, what do you remember about going to the beach perhaps? Patricia Beaumont. Yes, we went to the beach. I wasn’t able to st…
  • Paul Metzler - interviewed by Donna Braye, 18 February 2000
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    Paul Metzler. Where we lived, so you can get a picture of the street outside, was in Prince Albert Street on the corner of Lennox Street. As far as I was concerned,…

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