East Melbourne Historical Society
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Newspaper clipping reporting that Mary MacKillop House in Albert Street, East Melbourne, has been added to the register of Heritage Victoria. Mary MacKillop House was established as a home for homeless and unemployed women by the Sisters of St. Joseph. Photo.
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Newspaper clipping about the life of Janet, Lady Clarke and particularly about the story of The Ashes which took place at Rupertswood, her home near Sunbury. A cricket match was played between the Clarke household and the visiting English team. The English team lost and Lady Clar...
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Invoice for cigarette ad. on letterhead. Business situated at 62 Wellington Parade.
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Newspaper clipping reporting on security issues and problems with short term rentals at the new Eastbourne Apartments.
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Sight and Sound, a Bi-Monthly Journal of the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital. This issue includes articles on medical advances, work of the auxilliary, and short social notes.
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Sight and Sound, a Bi-Monthly Journal of the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital. This issue includes articles on building development, hospital administration, medical advances, work of the auxilliary, and short social notes.
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Sight and Sound, a Bi-Monthly Journal of the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital. This issue includes articles on building development, hospital administration, medical advances, work of the auxilliary, and short social notes.
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Historical article by Jenny Brown about Sir William Clark and his vast town house, Cliveden, on the corner of Wellington Parade and Clarendon Street, East Melbourne. It was demolished to make way for the Hilton Hotel, now the Pullman Hotel.
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The photo looks north from Vale Street across Wellington Parade to Simpson Street, East Melbourne. On the left is the police station built in 1956 for the Melbourne Olympics and now demolished. On the corner of Simpson Street an old post box still stands next to its modern equiva...
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Photo shows the intersection of Simpson Street and Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. Across Wellington Parade is Vale Street. On the left hand corner of Vale Street is a modern building constructed as an extension to St Ives Hospital behind. It has now been demolished and the ol...
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Newspaper clipping about purchase of Park Hyatt by Singapore Government. The Age, 11Aug. 2003.
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Newspaper clipping about the Clarke family and their hereditary baronetcy.
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Photocopies of newspaper clipping referring to two sisters, the Misses Louie and Annie Marchant, and their refusal to sell their cottage. Some history of the cottage and description. The pre-fabricated cottage was demolished in the 1960s.
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The letters of Private Thomas Gardner written to his mother and sister, Mabel from the battlefields of World War I. Interspersed with the letters is the story of Mabel's involvement with the Women's Peace Movement extracted from her diary. The Gardners' family home was Coniston,...
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Sketch for gasolier proposed for the first Trinity Church, George Street, East Melbourne. The first church was completed in 1864 to a design by Leonard Terry and was burnt down in 1905. The sketch is signed P. Oakden and dated 27.9.79. Percy Oakden had formed a partnership with L...
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This sketch map by Charles Joseph La Trobe marks in pink his own estate known as Jolimont. Directly south, on the river, is the site of the Mounted Police. Further to the east, on the other side of the bend now straightened, is the site of the Native Police. Further to the east a...
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Wood engraving. The actual title is "Sketches at the Servants' Training Institute Richmond" although the location is actually 39 Berry Street, East Melbourne, as shown on the MMBW Plan of 1897. The sketches show the building itself, the matron and activities in the garden, kitche...
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This photo was provided by Eileen Mina Cormick with the suggestion that he was possibly the subject of one of our WW1 biographies: George Joseph Dunkling. She suggests that he was adopted by the Dunkling family and when war was declared enlisted under his adopted name, George Jos...
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Newspaper clipping commenting on the proposed redevelopment of the Peter MacCallum Hospital site in East Melbourne. It is proposed that the land will be come luxury apartments but Melbourne City Council has criticised the plan on the grounds that there is no provision for public...
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick's recollections of an Australian childhood include a short time spent living at The Ritz, 36 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne. Includes photo of The Ritz in the 1920s.
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Photo shows a party in progress. The East Melbourne Group, founded in 1953 to fight inappropriate development, holds regular social functions to help raise funds for its work. This occasion was a progressive dinner with the main course held at Wynne McGrath's house, 112 Hotham St...
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The book contains short individual histories of Catholic institutions and buildings in Victoria. With photos. These include St Patrick's Cathedral; St Patrick's College; Christian Brothers' Schools, East Melbourne (Parade College). Photos include: St Patrick's Church St Patrick's...
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1 x A4 page of typed notes being names of some residents of East Melbourne extracted from Electoral Rolls of 1934, 1936 and 1945; and from Post Office Directories 1933, 1934 and 1939.
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Catalogue of fine furniture and fine arts includes Lot 311, "an important Australian cedar and specimen wood sideboard of grand proportions carved with the pictorial history of the foundation and progress of the colony of Victoria, circa 1860-1873, by Peter McLean" Peter McLean w...