Cheryl’s parents owned the sandwich shop, opposite the Frisco Hotel.  Although she knew no-one when the family moved to Woolloomooloo, the Playground was a big ice breaker: “It didn’t take long for a new kid to arrive before they were involved in things and knew people.” The Playground figures greatly in Cheryl’s account. She tells of the contribution made by the Playground staff: Mr Rose, Kay and Kevin Ryan, Mr Rosenfeld, and Miss Straughan and the teaching of sports and physical culture who coached and looked after them and kept them off the streets. Cheryl was interviewed by Sue Rosen for the South Sydney Social History Project in March 1995.