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That was a really enjoyable and very informative visit to St Nicholas's Church last week. Thanks to all involved and especially to Dr Batrouney and Father Demetri. More please!

Tim Holland (President) Barbara Paterson (Vice President) Sylvia Black (Secretary) Malcolm Howell (Treasurer) Diane Clifford (Membership) Jill Fenwick Ian Hind Marita McCabe Lisette Malatesta

The painstaking research by Major General Michael O'Brien shows that nearly 800 service men and women who service in the Great War 1914-18 had some sort of connection with East Melbourne - they lived here, or their next of kin did, or they worked here, etc.

There has been some discussion within the Committee of the East Melbourne Historical Society about the merits and otherwise of the Society making submissions to the City of Melbourne and VCAT regarding planning applications within East Melbourne. Traditionally this has been the r...

Material donated to the Society's collection as well as articles, histories and photographs created for newsletters, booklets and the website are intended for general publication to fulfil the aims of the Society.

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John Barrie Wykes

My father John Wykes passed away on 28th April, at the height of the corona outbreak but as a result of an operation conducted shortly before the clampdown that offered hope of relief from chronically painful, crippling rheumatoid arthritis in the knees.

The following are objectives for our web site which are a little bit different from the objectives for the Society as set out in our About page. This hasn't gone through a "constitutional" process, so comments are very welcome.

Application This policy applies to the East Melbourne Historical Society website https://emhs.org.au. Historical data The data on this site is historical and does not pertain to living people. Names and images of living people may be included incidentally such as speakers, author...

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Welcome

East Melbourne is a tiny suburb adjoining the city of Melbourne bounded by Treasury and Fitzroy Gardens to the west, Victoria Parade to the north, Hoddle Street to the east and Yarra Park to the south, home of the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground. East Melbourne was included in Ro...

First go emhs.org.au. Click on WW1; click on People; choose a serviceman whose details have not been recorded and write down his full name and service number. You’ll need this for accessing his war records.

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Wynne McGrath

Wynne and I first met around 1975 when Meg and Shannon started kindergarten. She made friends immediately in that community even though she was busy managing John’s specialist mechanics business. Soon the family moved to East Melbourne as well, and she was inspired to put her sig...

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Yarra Park at its Lowest Point?

Yarra Park 2 August 2010The East Melbourne Historical Society has published a gallery of photographs recording the current condition of Yarra Park, perhaps at its worst in living memory.