The Errol Flynn Blog

Taken at the Young Family Home of Young Errol featured above!

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Thank you, David. Donna is staying on Manly Beach and reports that the Manly neighborhood and residents have an exhilarating spirit. Per a local publication, the photo above is:

“[o]f a very young Errol Flynn, dressed in a clown costume, posing with three young women dressed as pierrots. The photo was loaned by a Mr Robinson of Grenfell, NSW, who stated that the photo was taken in Wood Street, Manly in the early 1920s or earlier. Errol was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1909, and looks about 6 or seven in the photo. His mother is the woman on the left of the photo, along with two of her friends. Mr Robinson’s grandmother lived in Stuart Street, not far from where young Errol lived with his mother, and his aunt Vera Robinson also lived in Stuart Street for many years.”

“Flynn’s autobiography, My Wicked Wicked Ways, makes no mention of living in Manly. However the Sands’ Directory for 1916 notes a Mrs A E Young at no 67 Wood Street in 1916. Flynn’s mother’s maiden name was Young, and her mother was Mrs Annie E Young. Perhaps Errol’s parents were temporarily separated and Mrs Flynn had gone back to live with mother for a spell? I wonder if he attended Manly Village School that year?”

“Flynn’s father, a Professor of Biology, was at this period a Royal Commissioner examining the Tasmanian fishing industry.”