Friday February 1, 2008
Postcards from Mosman's past
We recently came across some historic postcards of Mosman’s Bay and Clifton Gardens on the photo sharing website Flickr. They date from the beginning of the last century, roughly 1900 to 1920.
The Mosman’s Bay set features views of the Harbour, its ferries and houses, the wharf at the bottom of Avenue Road and the footbridge across what is today Reid Park.
In the Clifton Gardens set you see the ‘The Clifton Arms’ at Chowder Bay, the first licensed hotel in Mosman, and the very popular ‘pleasure grounds’ that incorporated the Marine Hotel with its dance hall, wharf, pool and accommodation, ‘unsurpassed in the Southern Hemisphere’. The hotel was demolished in 1967. You can also see the Submarine Mining Depot, now accessible to the public.
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You may also be interested to see historic photographs of Mosman scanned from glass plate negatives in the Tyrrell Collection of the Powerhouse Musuem here and here.
The Powerhouse Museum is also seeking information about the history of Reid Park in Mosman.
Perhaps you can help them out?
Hi there
what do you have to do to be able to use these historical photos you have posted on your blog? I would be using them in a book about Mosman.
Thanks
