Transport: Buses, Trains and Walking (1926-1950)
| Author |
Angus D B Caporn |
| Date Range |
1926-1950 |
| Subject |
Bus Service; North Shore Cemetery; The Bungalow Private Hospital; Train; Transport; World War Two |
Excerpts transcribed verbatim from Mr Caporn’s handwritten memories
On my Birth Certificate The Bungalow is down as a private hospital. I have a feeling that the nearest public hospital was Royal North Shore and to go there would involve a walk to the station, train trip to St Leonards, then another walk, whereas there was Royal Bros bus service along Ashley Street turning at Archer and down to the corner of Victoria Avenue for convenience in those days of no car in 1926.
The World War Two started and one day I could hear a steam engine (locomotive) as we weren’t far from the railway line. So I asked mum, could I go to investigate? OK. It came as far as the sidings north of the station and troops boarded the carriages and off they went.
There was a bus service along the highway from Chatswood to Hornsby. My maternal grandparents had passed on [--and--] grandmother, so we would go out to North Shore Cemetery by walking down to the station, west side, and take the bus to the cemetery, buy flowers there for the grave and eventually for my grandfather and then my mother when she died in 1943.