Groom Family
We think the Groom property was 11 or 13 Surfside Avenue Mossy Point, or both.
The Groom Brothers had a shipbuilding, engineering and boilermaking business in Berrys Bay Sydney, Ron Young worked there before taking over the Mossy Point Post Office Store in 1950. The Groom family built a steel framed fibro cottage after World War 2, the steel frame was really innovative at the time.
We're lucky to have some pictures of the Grooms and their friends, the house and the Tent City that sprang up there during the Christmas holidays during the 1940s and through to the mid 1950s.
The Groom Brothers had a shipbuilding, engineering and boilermaking business in Berrys Bay Sydney, Ron Young worked there before taking over the Mossy Point Post Office Store in 1950. The Groom family built a steel framed fibro cottage after World War 2, the steel frame was really innovative at the time.
We're lucky to have some pictures of the Grooms and their friends, the house and the Tent City that sprang up there during the Christmas holidays during the 1940s and through to the mid 1950s.
Down at The Creek. Note the pylons from the first bridge on the other bank. LT.
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Groom family and friends. LT.
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Bathing Belles. LT.
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Down At The Creek. LT.
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Been Fishing. LT.
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Grooms' steel framed house in Surfside Avenue. LT.
"Tent City". LT.
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No floors in tents in the 1940s. LT.
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There were rabbits at Tomakin, even at high tide. LT.
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"Of course we'll make it back to Sydney!" LT.
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From 1945 to about 1955 motor car inner tubes were all the rage for children learning to swim, that's all there was. LT.
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The mare and her foal roamed all over Mossy Point with the cattle. LT.
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