Building histories & places

Place

Jolimont, Wellington Parade South 101, Redcourt

This is a large tuck-pointed red brick dwelling in the Queen Anne style with terracotta tile roof, pebble dash panels and timber strapwork to the eaves. [i-Heritage Database]

Large 3-storey house built of polychrome brick

Double fronted, single storey house. Rendered. Verandah

Single storey house with verandah on two sides.

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McGuigan, Henry (1823-1891)

Henry McGuiganIn the years from 1845 to 1852 against a backdrop of an Ireland devastated with famine, through the potato blight – the people’s staple diet – and an insidious mixture of politics– one million Irish people emigrated to the New World and one million had already died...

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McLean, Margaret (1845-1923)

Margaret McLean was a resident of East Melbourne and a towering figure in liberating women through education, health, prison reform, temperance and democratic participation. The material here was researched and presented to the Society by Dr Liz Rushen on 18 June 2008.

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Milestones

1803: Lt-Governor David Collins took 460 convicts and white settlers ashore near Sorrento.

We would love to publish more stories about the residents of East Melbourne. If you have a historical record, an obituary, a memoir, an oral history, letters or a personal glimpse and would like to share it please make contact.

On 6 December 1876 Charles Barthing was summoned under common law to answer a charge that “on the 28th October at Gipps-street, East Melbourne, and on divers days and hours between that day and the date hereof (29th ult.) he did keep and maintain a certain common dancingroom near...

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Riches, Nora - 100th Birthday

On 15 February 2008, local resident, Nora Riches turned 100. Her son, Graham, and his wife, Viv, invited family and friends to celebrate the occasion with her.

Archbishop Frank Woods and his wife Jean were residents of East Melbourne from 1957 to 1977 when they lived at Bishopscourt. Their daughter Clemence was six when they arrived in Melbourne from England for her father to take up his appointment. In October 2008 Clemence gave a deli...

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Yarra Park, from Go to Woe

When Charles Joseph La Trobe arrived in Melbourne in 1839 as the newly appointed superintendent of the colony of Port Phillip he would have found the north bank of the Yarra, just east of the city, to be bordered by swamps and lagoons rising gently to open scrubland dominated by...