East Melbourne Historical Society
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A history of Berry Street, formerly Berry Street Babies Home. Numerous photos, mostly unidentified, which show life inside the Home. One photo of particular interest to East Melbourne (p.22), and which is not identified, is the old Police Hospital that was part of the Richmond Ba...
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A facsimile edition reproducing the original 4th edition printed in 1938. As well as recipes the book contains gardening and household hints, and a child welfare section with advice to the prospective mother. There is a brief forward describing the work of the Berry Street Foundl...
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Newpaper clipping about new premises for the Alliance Francaise in St Kilda. The Alliance Francaise was founded by Madame Berthe Mouchette who when she first arrived in Melbourne lived at 128 Gipps Street, East Melbourne, where she taught art in a studio behind the house.
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Scan of inside cover of a copy of the Arabian Nights awarded to Bessie Cornwell for drawing in 1887 while she was a student at Claremont, 342 Albert Street, East Melbourne. The school ran for ten years between 1881 and 1891. The principal was Mrs W K Muir, the widow of Rev Willia...
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Newspaper article on Melbourne's best 10 hotel rooms. Magnolia Court and Park Hyatt both featured. Photo said to be of Magnolia Court is actually of Eastern House (apartments), 174 George Street, East Melbourne. Herald Sun, Weekend, 6 Sept. 2003.
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A photo of Betty Hall late in life. She was a retired solicitor and resident of East Melbourne for many years, living at 74 Simpson Street.
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2008 Newspaper clippings about proposed new bicycle lanes in Albert Street.
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First of two volume memoir by Fairlie Taylor. Taylor started work as a teacher in regional Victoria. In 1933 she became Victoria's first full-time teacher-librarian at Presbyterian Ladies' College, East Melbourne and later at Methodist Ladies' College. This volume covers the peri...
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Newspaper clippings about plan to develop air space above railway line between Federation Square and Richmond. Photo with diagram. June-Aug. 2003.
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Bill and Myra Sutton outside 86 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. In the background is a sign for 'safety brakes spare parts', now Pyman's Pharmacy; and beyond that a sign for Foodland Self Service, now a Vietnamese restaurant. The Suttons at the time the photo was taken lived i...
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Newspaper clippings announcing government grant to help fund the establishment of a new centre which aims to create a new generation of bionic ears. Part of the Bionic Ear Institute it will be named after Professor Graeme Clark, the inventor of the bionic ear. Photos. April 2005.
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Coloured lithograph. Aerial view of Melbourne from a point just north of Victoria Parade looking towards Port Phillip Bay. Prominent East Melbourne features include St Patrick's Cathedral and nearby churches, the various government and parliament buildings, Treasury Gardens and t...
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Newspaper cutting reporting on Birrarung Marr's original designers' disapproval of the Melbourne City Council's failure to implement their design in totality. The designers of the park were landscape architects Ronald Jones and Helena Piha, and consultants Taylor Cullity and Leth...
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Newspaper clippings about the formation of the Australian Ballet School 4o years earlier. It started in an East Melbourne boarding school (PLC). Photos. 2004.
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Picture of Bishop Charles Perry, Bishop of Melbourne from 1848 to 1876. The State Library of Victoria dates the picture between 1857 and 1863.
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Profile of Bishop Ian George AO, locum-tenens at Holy Trinity, taken from Holy Trinity website. Accompanied by sermon delivered at Holy Trinity on Easter Day 8 April 2012.
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Talk given by Bishop James Grant at the 2003 Christmas function at Bishopscourt. A history of the building.
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B/W photo of Bishopscourt from front entrance. Shows the tower and glimpses of the house through trees and shrubs. (La Trobe Picture Collection, SLV. Accession no. H90.161/20) c.1920.
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Selected images from a photo album loaned to Joy Freier by Jean Beck, daughter of the maid serving Bishopscourt under Archbishops Lees and Head.
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Newspaper articles about the publication of a book on the history of Bishopscourt, titled "Bishopscourt Melbourne - Official Residence and Family Home" by Elizabeth Rushen. The book was commissioned by Mrs Joy Freier, wife of Archbishop Philip Freier, who wanted it to be a social...
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Collection of various reports, newspaper clippings and pamphlets about the restoration of the Bishopscourt garden and its opening as part of Australia's Open Garden Scheme. Also includes photocopy of article entitled 'James Blackburn and Bishopscourt' by Timothy Hubbard from Inhe...
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Newspaper clipping about the garden at Bishopscourt, 120 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne, its history, its fall into neglect and its revitalisation under the direction of The Australian Garden History Society (Victoria) with volunteer labour from the local community.
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A social history of Bishopscourt Melbourne. It starts with the arrival of Bishop Perry and his choosing of the site for Melbourne's episcopal residence and works through the trials and tribulations that he and his wife experienced in the establishment of a house and a tradition t...
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Variety of items pertaining to Bishopscourt. Copy of woodcut illustration of Bishopscourt. Illustrated booklet by Wendy Dwyer of history of the house and garden. Photocopy of article in Your Garden October 2002. Photocopy of sketch by Charles Joseph La Trobe of Bishopscourt dated...