It’s a classic Mosman beauty that sits proudly in a premier locale – and when you take a wander down this quiet, family friendly street, you can’t help but notice its picture-perfect façade and manicured gardens.

When Paul and Amanda Evans purchased the tired Federation bungalow in 2013, they knew it had huge potential.

Over the last four years, year by year and battle by battle, we’ve commemorated the centenary of World War One. 2019 marks the Centenary of the Great Homecoming - the start of the aftermath of that war - the realisation of the cataclysmic damage that it caused.

Patrons were forced to run from Mosman Rowers Club this morning, after a blaze broke out on the lower level just after 10:30am. More than 40 fire fighters were called to the Mosman Bay landmark, as plumes of smoke billowed from lower level windows of the new Archie Bear café.

The Arena family are local grocers and providores who have speed Italian sunshine on Mosman tables, with the ripest tomatoes and the finest Focaccia, for 60 years.

From teetering Louboutins to that favourite pair of R.M. Williams boots, Carl Aloisio has been saving our soles for generations. But this week, the lower North Shore’s most trusted shoe maker and cobbler will hand up his apron for the final time.