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In house newsletter put out by Mercy Health & Aged Care. Mentions 70th anniversary of laying the foundation stone of Mercy Private, and Time to Move ball held by Mercy Hospital for Women.

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Brief History of Rivers Beechcroft Dickinson

Brief biography of Rivers Beechcroft Dickinson, clergyman, who was curate at St. Peter's, Eastern Hill from 1855 and who performed the marriage of W.A.C. a'Beckett and Emma Mills, whose elopement caused a minor scandal.

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Browne Family and Park House, 124 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne

Photo shows single house of terrace type. A carriage, possibly a landau, with a pair of horses, and driver aboard, waits in front. The house was on the site of the current Post Office (2008) at 124 Wellington Parade. At the time the photo was taken it was owned by Hugh Junor Brow...

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Browsing the aisles of serendipity

Review of an exhibition held at the State Library of Victoria entitled Velvet, Iron, Ashes. Many of the apparently disparate items have a greater or lesser connection with Janet, Lady Clarke, wife of Sir William Clarke of Cliveden, Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. The article s...

1 x A4 page of typed notes on the life of Bruce McBrien, 0AM, author of Marvellous Melbourne and Me.

The first incumbent of St. John the Evangelist was John Ramsden Wollaston, the father of Henry Wollaston who became the first incumbent of Holy Trinity, East Melbourne.

A box of index cards used by Winston Burchett to record his basic research on East Melbourne. There are 1,954 cards containing handwritten and typed notes as well as photographs taken by Burchett. There are some panoramic photographs taken from the top of the Hilton Hotel and the...

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Burchett Winston

Newspaper clipping - obituary of Winston Burchett, East Melbourne historian. Photo. The Age, The Culture, 27 September 2002.

A documentary about East Melbourne made and narrated by Winston Burchett in 1977. Re-taped on video in 2004.

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Burnell

Watercolour painting by William Tibbits of Burnell, the house which originally stood at 109 Albert Street, East Melbourne, now part of the Epworth Freemasons' Hospital site. Burnell was built for John Speechly Gotch, a partner in the firm of Gordon and Gotch, newsagents. The orig...

Newspaper article about the statue of General Gordon in Gordon Reserve and its recent classification by The National Trust.

Article in The Victorian Historical Journal Nov-Dec. 1975: special C.J. La Trobe issue.

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Cadzow, 154 Hotham Street, East Melbourne

The photo shows a two storey, double fronted house, with front door and portico slightly off-set, the result of extending the original single fronted house sideways. At the time the photo was taken it was owned by the Dougharty family who owned it from 1883-1952. The two children...

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Café Culture

Newspaper article and review about George Street Café. Photo. Herald Sun, 10 June 2003, Citystyle,.

Collection of brochures advertising auctions of various apartments at 131 Hotham Street, East Melbourne. From 2004 and ongoing. Photos. Plans.

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Cairns Apartments Finial Repair

On 1 July 2015 two large cranes and a team of men removed the finial from the top of the southern steeple of the Cairns Apartments. This series of photos shows the action. The finial is to be rebuilt by a stonemason using Geelong sandstone.

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Cairns Memorial Church, East Melbourne

Scan of glass lantern slide of the Cairns Memorial Church, East Melbourne by John Henry Harvey.

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Cancer hospital's move creates development opportunity

Newspaper clipping about the forthcoming move of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Hospital to Parkville and the development opportunities this will become available for the site on the corner of Landsdowne Street and St Andrews Place, East Melbourne.

An article about the life and work of Joyce Meier. Joyce Meier and her family lived at 73-75 Grey Street, East Melbourne for nearly 60 years. She had trained as an artist but did not pursue a professional career after her marriage, but continued to paint for her own pleasure. She...

Copy of Capital City News with a photograph and article about new lord mayor, Peter Costigan, a resident of East Melbourne. Part of a collection of miscellaneous correspondence and documents circulated among committee members of the East Melbourne Group in the years 1997-98.

Documentation pertaining to Captain Lonsdale's Cottage 1. From the Archives, 1981: Lonsdale's doors rescued from a lavatory. Reprinted in The Age, 9 August 2021 2. Captain Lonsdale's Cottage: Victorian Heritage Database Report. Documents sourced by David Wark

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Car parking row looms

Newspaper clippings about proposed reduction of car parking in Yarra Park. From 8 May 2003.

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Carroll family file

File contains postcards to and from members of the Carroll family of 139 Simpson Street, East Melbourne; invitations to institutional events; a photo labelled on reverse “Maggie and Annie”; several items removed from a scrap book and in very poor condition including theatre progr...

Newspaper article commenting on decision not to reduce car parking in Yarra Park. Reverse has article about the importance of bluestone to Melbourne's heritage and the Council's moves to protect it. Leader May 17, 2004.