When you visit number 60 at Susannah Place, the ‘front room’ is furnished as it might have been when first occupied in 1844. Step through to the next room and you are transported to the 1940s, when the Sarantides, an immigrant Greek family, lived there, from 1936 – 1947. Continue reading
Author: Anna Cossu
A moveable feast – peddlars, hawkers and the Sydney rabbitoh
Iceman, Frederick Danvers Power: photonegatives, 1898-1926 (detail). State Library of NSW: ON 225
Not everything was sold in corner shops. The familiar sounds of horse-driven carts and the street traders crying their wares were part of the rhythm of daily life at Susannah Place well into the 1950s. Continue reading
Cheap cash grocer
The ‘cash grocer’ on the corner of Susannah Place at 64 Gloucester Street was serving local customers for over 90 years. During this time there were 12 shopkeepers who lived onsite with their families. Continue reading
Anna Cossu
Curator Anna Cossu at The Mint. Photo © James Horan
Inspired by wonderful and slightly eccentric history teachers and after her own foray as a teacher, Anna found herself drawn to the world of museums. Continue reading