East Melbourne Historical Society
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Newspaper clipping about a block of apartments to be built behind the old grocer's shop at 17 Gipps Street, East Melbourne. As a way of working around height restrictions some developers are finding extra floor space underground. This block of apartments will be 7.8 metres high b...
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Article in The Victorian Historical Journal Nov-Dec. 1975: special C.J. La Trobe issue.
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Article in The Victorian Historical Journal Nov-Dec. 1975: special C.J. La Trobe issue.
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Publicity material for Rupertswood, the country home of the Clarke's of Cliveden, East Melbourne. Includes leaflet giving origin of The Ashes and the story of Ivo Bligh and Florence Morphy, briefly residents of East Melbourne. Photos of Rupertswood.
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Newspaper clippings about Ivo Bligh's and Florence Morphy's role in creation of The Ashes. They lived at 121 Powlett Street Photos. December 2002 to January 2003.
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A collection of essays contributed by a variety of museums, galleries, historical societies etc. each depicting family life in the past. Includes a chapter contributed by the Old Treasury Building about the Maynard family who lived at the Old Treasury as caretakers. Photos.
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A collection of short essays and poems written by local identities. Their memories and stories cover a wide variety of subjects relating to East Melbourne.
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Describes an early cure for alcoholism and drug addiction. An institution practising this cure was established by Dr. Wolfenden in Jolimont. It was later bought by the Wesley Central Mission. Victorian Historical Journal March 2000 pp 43-51.
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Family saga set over three generations in Melbourne and England. Based on the lives of the a'Beckett and Boyd families of Melbourne. Contains some references to East Melbourne, and Bishopscourt in particular.
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Book of photos of early Melbourne and accompanying text. Includes photo of William Blanton's bakery in Wellington Parade, 1862. (Possibly Wellington Street, Collingwood?).
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Brochure and newspaper advertisement for sale of The Chapel in Jolimont Square. Photo.
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Newspaper article about Clarke Family since their arrival in Australia. The Weekend Australian Magazine, 24-25 September 1983.
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This booklet is a reproduction of the 1898 orginal commemorative booklet published to record the consecration of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, on Sunday 31 October 1897, and the events that surrounded the occasion.
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Photo of house at 166 Wellington Parade taken in 1946. Shows large two storey house with timber arcaded verandah and timber balcony above and an octagonal turret with elaborate cement decoration beneath the eaves. Built c.1908 for William Gardiner Sprigg who called it The Cymyn....
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Newspaper clippings about Archbishop Peter Watson's farewell from office. Photos. The Melbourne Anglican, November 2005.
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Looks at the people responsible for early Melbourne's finances. Hugh Childers was the second Auditor-General and lived in Jolimont. Victorian Historical Journal. September 2002 pp.202-220.
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Talk given by Robert Pascoe on 20 Aug. 2003. The ground was the home of the East Melbourne Cricket Club and the Essendon Football Club. Includes bibliography.
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Article about proposed replacement of elms in Swan Street in Elm Watch June, September 2003.
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A documentary made to commemorate the end of the Freemasons' ownership of the hospital. Incorporates an earlier documentary (c. 1950s) made by Herschell Films.
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A documentary made to commemorate the end of the Freemasons' ownership of the hospital. Incorporates an earlier documentary (c. 1950s) made by Herschell Films.
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Catalogue of exhibition of photographs held at the Museum of Modern Art at Heide in 1998. One photograph shows Albert Tucker's studio at 85 Powlett Street in 1943.
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View of fountain in the Fitzroy Gardens now removed.
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Dr. Harry Lew narrates his book about the life of Maurice Brodzky, journalist and owner of Table Talk.
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Typescript article gives brief history of the first Holy Trinity Church in East Melbourne which was destroyed by fire, and its replacement by existing church. Accompanied by brief history of Holy Trinity Church Hall.