East Melbourne Historical Society
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Shows Mercy Private Hospital, Grey Street, East Melbourne, under construction in 1935. The view is taken up the hill towards Clarendon Street to the west. The house on the corner of Clarendon Street, was known as Clarendon House and was built in 1854 for Sir William a’Beckett. It...
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Postcard. The Rose Series P.49. Real photograph Shows the Mercy Private Hospital, Grey Street, East Melbourne. The view is taken up the hill towards Clarendon Street to the west. The house on the corner of Clarendon Street, was known as Clarendon House and was built in 1854 for S...
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Article about retirement of Sister Julie O'Brien who had worked at the Mercy Hospital for Women in East Melbourne since its opening in 1971. 1 January 2006.
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Article in The Age newspaper 15 August 2011 about two Michael Buxtons, related but not brothers. Both have different career interests in urban development, one as a developer, the other as Professor of Environment and Planning at RMIT University. The particular interest for East...
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Copy of plans 30 June 1907. Laminated.
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Newspaper clipping about the rediscovery of a mural on the wall of the old Balzac Restaurant, now Tippler & Co., at 58 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. Balzac Restaurant was established in 1956 by Georges Mora and his wife, artist Mirka Mora, who painted the mural.
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Short Newspaper clipping reporting on Mirka Mora's 83rd birthday. Mirka Mora is an East Melbourne identity as the founder, with her husband George, of the Balzac Restaurant, Wellington Parade.
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Newspaper articles about the threat to public parks through redevleopment and inappropriate usage. Discusses parkland all over Melbourne, but includes as examples the suggestion to fence off part of Yarra Park for entertainment during the Boxing Day Test, and redevlopment of Flin...
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Photo shows Miss Blanche Barrett outside Tara, 338 Victoria Parade. Miss Barrett was live-in house keeper to the elderly Misses McDonough whose house it was.
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Newspaper clipping of an article in which Tony Wilson writes of the time his mother, Margaret, won a football quiz giving her the title of Miss Football 1969. Margaret is a resident of East Melbourne. The Age, 26 May 2012, Good Weekend, p.9
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MMBW master plan and index to detailed plans covering Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Footscray, Melbourne, East Melbourne, Port Melbourne, Richmond, South Melbourne, Williamstown.
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1896 covering Flinders Street, Wellington Parade, Railway Yards, City Morgue, Corporation Baths and Yarra River.
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1899 covering Gisborne Street, Victoria Parade, Cathedral Place (Grey Street), Albert Street, Brunswick Street, Lansdowne Street, Eades Street and Fitzroy Gardens.
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1899 covering Grey Street, Hoddle Street, Hotham Street, Powlett Street, Gipps Street and Simpson Street.
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1899 covering Grey Street, Powlett Street, Hotham Street, Clarendon Street, Gipps Street and Fitzroy Gardens.
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1898 covering Hotham Street, Hoddle Street, Wellington Parade, Powlett Street, Simpson Street and George Street.
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1899 covering Hotham Street, Powlett Street, Wellington Parade, George Street, Clarendon Street and Fitzroy Gardens.
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1900 covering Jolimont Street, Swan Street, Jolimont Road and the old Scotch College Cricket Ground.
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1900 covering the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Yarra Park.
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1899 covering Powlett Street, Victoria Parade, Hoddle Street, Grey Street, Albert Street and Simpson Street.
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1899 covering Spring Street, Carpentaria Place, Gisborne Street, Parliament Place, Grey Street (Cathedral Place), Lansdowne Street, Treasury Place and Gipps Street (St Andrews Place).
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1895 covering Victoria Parade North, Victoria Parade South, Gisborne Street, Parliament Place, Gipps Street (St Andrews Place), Carpentaria Place, Spring Street, Evelyn Street and Albert Street.
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1899 covering Treasury Place, Lansdowne Street, Wellington Parade, Flinders Street, Spring Street and Treasury Gardens.
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1899 covering Victoria Parade, Powlett Street, Grey Street, Clarendon Street, Albert Street, Eades Street and Fitzroy Gardens.