Hi Alison If you are lookinging downhill from the church with the "monds" a bit above the bottom of a shallow depression, the church was probably the Anglican Christ Church St Laurence on the eastern side of George Street, a bit downhill from the Railway towards the Quay. On the same side of the road and a little up the next rise there used to be Mick Symonds Sports Store. It had gone by the late 60's when I returned to live in Sydney & I think there is now a building in abeyance on the way from a big hole. Not altogether a unique proof of identity, but I can't think of any other that comes close. Cheers Harry >Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:16:33 +1100 >From: "Alison Briggs" <abriggs@mars.ocs.mq.edu.au> >To: AUS-NSW-SURNAMES-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <00cb01c096ec$ef280700$de846f89@abriggs> >Subject: A long shot - Sydney >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >Hello List >I hope you don't laugh at this request but... > >My mother recently gave me a photograph taken on either VE Day or VJ Day 1945 in Sydney. Among the celebrating crowds is my laughing grandmother. > >Here's the long shot...... >It had to be in Sydney because my grandmother worked at Mark Foys and we think it must be nearby. It's taken outside a big old church with columns at the steps. Outside the church is a notice for an organ recital, but can't read the date or place. On a side wall is an old wooden notice board with a triangular top, and underneath in minute print looks to be the ministers name (unreadable of course) and information about service times. >Looking up the street is a covered walkway over some shops. One of the shops has an obscured sign that says "?monds" (which I guess to be Symonds) > >I'm hoping this might job someone's memory. Unfortunately I can't ask my grandmother. > >Alison > >