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Queen Bess Auction
Real estate advertisement for Rubra, 72 Hotham Street, part of Queen Bess Row, inviting expressions of interest closing 12 Nov. 2004.
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Queen Bess Row
Article on history of Queen Bess Row.
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Queen Bess Row - Advertisement for Nursing Home 1892
Advertisement which appeared in the Australian Medical Journal on Feb. 15, 1892. Transcript of text: "It is a notorious fact, that the many excellent Hospitals in the Metropolis are seldom called into requisition by the richer classes. A Private Home for paying patients has there...
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Railways. January 1978
Railways was a monthly newsletter published by the Vic Rail Board. In the January 1978 issue an article appeared which described the creation of a garden behind the Jolimont Workshops. A small group of workers clubbed together to create the garden. It struggled until the Moscow C...
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Real Estate Ads
Real estate advertisements for various houses in East Melbourne. Some unidentified. Line drawings. Photos.
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Real estate agencies merge
Newspaper clipping about the merger of East Melbourne real estate agency, Carmichael & Weber with Bennison Mackinnon.
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Real Estate Agents, historical
Miscellaneous documents.
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Real estate data
A lever arch folder containing a large number of auction brochures, interspersed with hand-written notes listing sale prices of East Melbourne properties sold during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The folder also contains some newspaper cuttings about property in East Melbourne....
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Real estate sales
Promotional brochure advertising two recent sales in East Melbourne: house at 171 Powlett Street and apartment at 30 St. Andrews Place
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Recollections of East Melbourne by Richard King
A short, hand-written piece giving the personal recollections of Richard King, owner and occupier of 125 George Street during the 1960s and 1970s. He mentions Robin Cuming, 'Black Jack' McEwen, Mrs Clark, Ian Gardiner, Ben Marriner and Peter and Di Renou. Most of the people menti...
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Record $13m for site overlooking MCG
Report of sale of commercial building on the corner of Wellington Parade and Powlett Street, after many years in the ownership of the Paton family.
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Redmond Barry: A Colonial Life 1813-1880
A booklet outlining the life of Redmond Barry by Peter Ryan. Barry died at his East Melbourne home, Valetta, 206 Clarendon Street. Tucked into the booklet were two newspaper clippings about Barry: 1. 'Kelly's final Victim' by Peter Ryan. The Age, 18 30 September 1980 2. 'No finer...
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Redmond Barry: A Colonial Life 1813-1880
Biography of Sir Redmond Barry. Illustrations.
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Redmond Barry: An Anglo-Irish Australian
Biography of Redmond Barry, who lived briefly in East Melbourne.
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Reflections
Selected images reproduced from the book, Reflections, 150 Years of The Age, published by Transworld Publishers, 2004. Includes photos of city by James Noone in 1871 from a high point, possibly Parliament House roof. Sporting identities at East Melbourne sporting grounds. Pope Pa...
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Reflections on City's Other Life
Newspaper clipping about Nicole Themistes and her debut book, 'Spectacle City: An Allegory', a satire exploring the real nature of Melbourne. The author is a resident of East Melbourne.
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Refurbishment of Lovell Chen's new office
Newspaper clipping about the refurbishment of Lovell Chen Architects & Heritage Consultants' new office at 176 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne.
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Remembering Melbourne 1850-1960
A book of over 700 black and white photographs of early Melbourne scenes, mainly buildings, which have been demolished or significantly changed. The first half of the book concentrates on the CBD but includes public gardens and the Yarra River. The second half of the book looks a...
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Reminiscences of East Melbourne
Typed transcript of a meeting held by the East Melbourne Historical Society on 16 April 2003. The event entailed Alan Basham chairing a panel of six long term residents of East Melbourne who, in turn, spoke of their memories of living in the area. Memories included stories of dec...
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Reopening of St Peter's Plaza Eastern Hill
On 10 November, St Peter’s Plaza and the restored ‘Cross of Sacrifice’ were re-opened to the public. Dating from 1924, the cross is a memorial to the fallen soldiers of World War 1, modelled on wayside crosses in France and is the only one of its kind in Australia. The ceremony w...
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Resident Parking
Correspondence from City of Melbourne about proposal to charge a $20 fee for residential parking permits Part of a collection of miscellaneous correspondence and documents circulated among committee members of the East Melbourne Group in the years 1997-98.
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Residents in bid for cottage
Newspaper article about a proposal to turn the old Yarra Park warden's cottage over to community use. Photo. The Leader 23 Feb. 2004.
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Residents push
Newspaper clipping about the push by local residents, led by Nerida Samson, to have East Melbourne placed on the Heritage Register. Cartoon. Melbourne Times, 13 October 2004.
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Residents use people power
Newspaper article features the work of the East Melbourne Group in its jubilee year, and history of its establishment. Comments from Margaret Wood and Michael Wilson. Photo of Wood and Wilson. Melbourne Yarra Leader 8 December 2003.