Our new weekly column from local journalist Kathryn Barton turns back the clock to meet the people and witness the events that shaped life on the lower north shore in years gone by.

Lower north shore residents turned out in their thousands to commemorate Anzac Day in Mosman and North Sydney on Tuesday.

Sore heads, ringing ears, and the odd rock-and-roll earworm greeted revellers the morning after The Big Gig at Mosman RSL.

Two-up is a traditional Australian game played legally only on ANZAC Day in pubs and clubs.

Budding artists have until Friday, 28 April, to register and submit their drawings, paintings, photographs, videos, prints, sculptures or ceramics to try their hand at winning the prestigious Mosman Youth Art Prize.

It was Australia's entry into WWI that saw a young widow, Myra Taylor, brace herself as she stood at North Head on a windy night in 1915. There she tested her rayless, light-throwing device to see if it might benefit the Allies.