It shouldn’t come as a surprise that history repeats itself. In reviewing possible content for Mosman Parks & Bushland’s new website we came across this video of a news item from August 1988.

The President of The Mosman Parks & Bushland Association, Kate Eccles, has received an OAM for services to conservation and the environment.

In 1964 Audrey Lenning was a foundation member of the Association and, for the rest of her life, was an active campaigner for the protection of bushland and open space.

On 25 October 2014 the Association celebrated 50 years of protecting parks, bushland and open space and the development of a system of bush regeneration, known as the Bradley Method.

Volunteers have been helping restore this unique patch of sandstone heathland,  which honours the Bradley sisters, Eileen and Joan, who invented the concept of bush regeneration in the 1960s.

The Mosman Parks & Bushland Association had its gestation due to the work of Eileen Burton Bradley and Joan Burton Bradley, bush regenerators.

Former Mayor of Mosman, the late Barry O’Keefe (20 May 1933 – 24 April 2014), told some wonderful stories about working with the Bradley Sisters in an interview he gave for Mosman Library.