East Melbourne Historical Society
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1897 covering Wellington Parade, Jolimont Road, National Gymnasium, East Melbourne Cricket Ground, Princes Bridge Station Yard, Flinders Park.
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1897 covering Hoddle Street (Punt Road), Wellington Parade, Wellington Parade South, Berry Street, Vale Street, Yarra Park.
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1897 covering Jolimont Terrace, Jolimont Street, Jolimont Road, Wellington Parade, Wellington Parade South, Palmer Street, Agnes Street, Charles Street and Yarra Park.
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MMBW detailed plan of East Melbourne published in 1895 covering Yarra Park and the Richmond Cricket Ground.
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Photos of Model Tudor Village and Fairies tree.
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Information and photographs about Harold Parsons, champion motor cyclist who was killed in an accident. A monument in his memory stands in Weedon Reserve, corner of Wellington Parade and Hoddle Street, East Melbourne.
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A history of the school. Photos. List of students. Plan of school as endpapers. No index.
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A history of the school. Photos. List of students. Plan of school as endpapers. No index.
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A history of the society includes biographies of members. Photos. Index.
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Newspaper articles about Gary Morgan's mayoral campaign as part of Melbourne city Council elections in 2004. Includes some biographical information. Photos.
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This grand mansion on Clarendon Street has been unoccupied and crumbling for many years. In 2011 it was occupied by homeless people resulting in a fire and some internal and external damage. It is now boarded up and surrounded by security fencing. There has been no action on the...
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This grand mansion on Clarendon Street has been unoccupied and crumbling for many years. In 2011 it was occupied by homeless people resulting in a fire and some internal and external damage. It is now boarded up and surrounded by security fencing. There has been no action on the...
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Newspaper clipping reporting on failed sale of Mornington, 105 Wellington Parade South. 29 May 2005.
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Real estate article about Mozart, 105 George Street scheduled for auction on 14 February, 1987. Also copy photo of Mozart c.1975, from the Burchett files held in the East Melbourne Library.
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Copy of pencil drawing of Mr. Henry Cooke's House, then known as Egglestone Villa. A later owner Thomas Welton Stanford called it Stanford House. Later again it was the Arms of Jesus Babies' Home. Originally a prefabricated house, believed to be the first private house in East Me...
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Article in The Victorian Historical Journal Nov-Dec. 1975: special C.J. La Trobe issue.
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A memoir in the which the author, Virginia Hill, recounts her experience as a child of the British Raj sent away to board at Melbourne's Merton Hall at the age of five. It was an unhappy experience, and although the story has nothing to do with East Melbourne directly it highligh...
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The eventful, rags to riches life story of Muriel Ismay Smith who lived at Victoria House, 220 Clarendon Street between 1954 and 1988 when she died. The author is her grandson, Paul Lawrie. Includes photos.
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1 x A4 page of typed notes being names of musicians and entertainers extracted from Electoral Rolls of 1934, 1936 and 1945.
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The author, Arda Barry, tells the story of her early life: growing up in Latvia, fleeing the Russian invaders, experiences in the refugee camps of occupied Germany, arrival in Australia five years later and the Bonegilla Migrant Camp, school in the Riverina and work as a milk bar...
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The author, Arda Barry, tells the story of her early life: growing up in Latvia, fleeing the Russian invaders, experiences in the refugee camps of occupied Germany, arrival in Australia five years later and the Bonegilla Migrant Camp, school in the Riverina and work as a milk bar...
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Author, Kath McKay, writes about the legal case surrounding the rape of her grandmother, Ethel Wilkinson, as a nine year old child in 1895. The accused rapist was Edwin Worrall, a family friend who looked after Ethel and her two brothers while Harry Wilkinson, their father, a sol...
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Newspaper clipping and obituary of Vali Myers, artist. She lived at Watlington, 189 Hotham Street. Photos. January to February 2003.
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Two pictures of East Melbourne residents in front of Mygunya, 92 Vale Street, East Melbourne. The first of the family of Peter Hill taken in 1885. The second of Myra Young taken in 1962. Myra, about to leave for a holiday in Singapore and Hong Kong, is smartly dressed and sportin...